The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 128
She must also be perfectly beautiful; and you so much a master of yourself as not to determine to keep her for your wife, as you are conducting her hither.
Who acts: maiden, you · What happens: be, master, not determine, keep, conduct · To what, where: maiden
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 master | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 master | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 master | nsubj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 master | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 master | det |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beautiful | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 yourself | case |
| 15 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 master | nmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 determine | mark |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 determine | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 determine | mark |
| 19 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 master | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 keep | mark |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 determine | xcomp |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 wife | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 conducting | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 conducting | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 conducting | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 conducting | aux |
| 30 | conducting | conduct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 keep | advcl |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hither | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 30 conducting | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | maiden | beautiful, perfectly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | master | you | of yourself | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not determine | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | you not said here | maiden | for your wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | conduct | present · progressive | you | hither property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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