The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 13
“Oh my son!” said she, “take heed you do not squander all this wealth foolishly, as you have already done the royal treasure.
Who acts: mother, you · What happens: say, take, not squander, do · To what, where: heed, royal treasure · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 squander | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 squander | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 squander | advmod |
| 16 | squander | squander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 heed | acl:relcl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 wealth | det:predet |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 wealth | det |
| 19 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 20 | foolishly | foolishly | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 done | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 done | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 done | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 25 | already | already | ADV | _ | 26 done | advmod |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 take | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 treasure | det |
| 28 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 treasure | amod |
| 29 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 done | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | heed | all wealth obj; foolishly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument heed=Theme wealth=Destination | ||||
| 3 | not squander in a quote | present · do-support | you | heed not said here | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · perfect | you | the royal treasure | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Eventuality |
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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