The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 43
Return to your dominions, and when you enter the underground room, where the eight statues are, you shall find the ninth which I promised you.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: return, enter, find, promise · To what, where: underground room, ninth, you
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), 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 | Return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 dominions | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Return | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 find | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 find | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 enter | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 enter | nsubj |
| 9 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 11 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 room | amod |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enter | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 are | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 are | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 statues | det |
| 16 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 statues | nummod |
| 17 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 are | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 room | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 enter | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Return | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ninth | det |
| 24 | ninth | ninth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 promised | obj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 promised | nsubj |
| 27 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ninth | acl:relcl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 promised | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | imperative | you not said here | to your dominions result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to dominion=Result | ||||
| 2 | enter | present | you | the underground room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | shall | you | the ninth | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ninth=Topic | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | I | the ninth | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent which=Goal you=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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