The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 27
Whatever it costs you, be as good as your word to the Sultan of the Genii.”
Who acts: way, your · What happens: cost, be, word · To what, where: Whatever
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 (way, 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 costs | obj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 costs | nsubj |
| 3 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 costs | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 good | cop |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 costs | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 word | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 word | nmod:poss |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 good | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Sultan | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sultan | det |
| 14 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 word | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Genii | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Genii | det |
| 17 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sultan | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present | way | Whatever | you obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme whatever=Beneficiary you=Value | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | way not said here | as your word to the Sultan of the Genii; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | word | your | to the Sultan of the Genii | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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