The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 66
Live happy, Zeyn, with this your wife,” said he, directing his discourse to the young prince, “and if you would have her true and constant to you, love her always and love her only.”
Who acts: wife, you, sultan · What happens: say, direct, have, love, discourse · To what, where: discourse, wife · 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 (wife, you, 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 | Live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 happy | amod |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Zeyn | punct |
| 4 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 happy | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 wife | det |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 directing | punct |
| 15 | directing | direct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 discourse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 directing | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 prince | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 prince | amod |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 directing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 have | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | aux |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 directing | parataxis |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 true | nmod:poss |
| 30 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 have | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 constant | cc |
| 32 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 true | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 you | case |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 constant | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 love | punct |
| 36 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | parataxis |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 love | obj |
| 38 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 36 love | advmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 love | cc |
| 40 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 love | conj |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 love | obj |
| 42 | only | only | ADV | _ | 40 love | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | your wife | sultan nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | direct in a quote | gerund | your wife not said here | sultan's discourse | to the young prince | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | would | you | true property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | love | present | wife | always property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | love | infinitive | wife | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | discourse in a quote | sultan | nom discourse «communication 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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