The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 50
“But how can you convince me that you are his son?”
Who acts: you · What happens: convince, be · To what, where: Mobarec, son
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 convince | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 convince | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 convince | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 convince | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 convince | nsubj |
| 6 | convince | convince | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 convince | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 son | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 son | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 son | cop |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 convince | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 convince | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 convince | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | convince in a quote | can | you | Mobarec | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | Mobarec's son | Mobarec nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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