The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 130
Now swear to me to observe these conditions and keep your oath like a man of honor.
Who acts: you · What happens: swear, observe, keep · To what, where: me, conditions, oath
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 swear | advmod |
| 2 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 swear | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 observe | mark |
| 6 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 swear | advcl |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 conditions | det |
| 8 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 observe | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 keep | cc |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 observe | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 oath | nmod:poss |
| 12 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 honor | case |
| 17 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | imperative | you not said here | me | now | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | observe | to-infinitive | you not said here | this conditions | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent condition=Topic | ||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | your oath | like a man of honor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme |
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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