The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 24
“Let us go,” answered the prince; “I must take care to do exactly as I agreed; yet I must confess, my dear Mobarec, that, if I obey the Sultan of the Genii, it is not without reluctance.
Who acts: us, prince, Genii · What happens: let, go, answer, take, do, agree · To what, where: us, care, dear Mobarec, Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, prince, Genii), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 15 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | conj |
| 18 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 21 agreed | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 agreed | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 agreed | nsubj |
| 21 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | advcl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 confess | punct |
| 23 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 26 confess | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 confess | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 confess | aux |
| 26 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Mobarec | punct |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 Mobarec | nmod:poss |
| 29 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Mobarec | amod |
| 30 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 confess | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 that | punct |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 Mobarec | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 obey | punct |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 obey | mark |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 obey | nsubj |
| 36 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 confess | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Sultan | det |
| 38 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 obey | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Genii | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Genii | det |
| 41 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Sultan | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 reluctance | punct |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 reluctance | nsubj |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 reluctance | cop |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 reluctance | advmod |
| 46 | without | without | ADP | _ | 47 reluctance | case |
| 47 | reluctance | reluctance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Sultan | appos |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | must | the prince = prince | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the prince = prince not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | agree speech: agree in a quote | past | the prince = prince | exactly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | confess in a quote | must | the prince = prince | my dear Mobarec that | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | obey a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the prince = prince | the Sultan of the Genii | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme | ||||
| 9 | not is in a quote | present | Genii | without reluctance | 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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