The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 29
Let her never appear in my sight—perhaps I have already seen too much of her.”
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: let, not appear, see, sight · To what, where: maid, sight, much
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 (you, I, my), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 appear | advmod |
| 4 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appear | obl |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 seen | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 13 seen | advmod |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Let | advcl |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seen | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 much | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | maid | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not appear | present | you not said here | my sight | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | present · perfect | I | much of maid | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | sight | my | nom sight «cognition 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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