The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 74

“Sir,” said Mobarec, “I am ready to comply with your desires; but you know not what dangers you must encounter to make this precious acquisition.”

Who acts: Mobarec, you, dangers, your · What happens: say, be, comply, not know, encounter, make · To what, where: precious acquisition · 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 (Mobarec, you, dangers, your), 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	_	2 Sir	punct
2	Sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ready	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 ready	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 ready	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ready	cop
11	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 comply	mark
13	comply	comply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ready	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 desires	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 desires	nmod:poss
16	desires	desire	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 comply	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 know	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
20	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 know	advmod
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 encounter	obj
23	dangers	danger	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 encounter	nsubj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 encounter	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 encounter	aux
26	encounter	encounter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 know	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 encounter	xcomp
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 acquisition	det
30	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 acquisition	amod
31	acquisition	acquisition	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mobarec		Sir ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Mobarec		ready property	tree rules
3	comply in a quote	to-infinitive	Mobarec not said here		with your desires	tree rules
4	not know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	encounter in a quote	must	dangers		what obj; you nsubj	tree rules
6	make in a quote	to-infinitive	dangers not said here	this precious acquisition		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquisition=Product
7	desire in a quote		your			nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 74