The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 63
I had a mind to try, whether, at his age, he could subdue himself.
Who acts: I, mind, sultan · What happens: have, try, subdue · To what, where: mind, sultan, age
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 (I, mind, sultan), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mind | det |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 try | mark |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 subdue | punct |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 subdue | mark |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whether | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 age | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 age | nmod:poss |
| 12 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 subdue | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 age | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 subdue | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 subdue | aux |
| 16 | subdue | subdue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 try | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 subdue | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | a mind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | a mind not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | subdue | could | sultan | sultan | at sultan's age | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
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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