The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 57
If you will go to the place where the wonderful statue is, I will conduct you; but you must first rest here for a short time.
Who acts: you, wonderful statue, I · What happens: go, be, conduct, rest · To what, where: place, you
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, wonderful statue, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 conduct | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 place | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 statue | det |
| 10 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 statue | amod |
| 11 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 where | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 where | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 conduct | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 conduct | aux |
| 16 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 conduct | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 rest | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 rest | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 rest | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 rest | aux |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 rest | advmod |
| 23 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 conduct | conj |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 rest | advmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rest | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 conduct | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go a condition, not said to happen | future | you | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the wonderful statue | the place not said here | where property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | conduct | future | I | you | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rest | must | you | here | time | first property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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