The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 74
When the other jackals see my wonderful color, it should be easy for me to persuade them that I should be their king.”
Who acts: other jackals, me, I · What happens: see, be, persuade · To what, where: wonderful color, rejoicings, king
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 (other jackals, me, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 see | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 jackals | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jackals | amod |
| 4 | jackals | jackal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 color | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 color | amod |
| 8 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 easy | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 easy | expl |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 easy | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 easy | cop |
| 13 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 see | conj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 persuade | mark |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 persuade | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 persuade | mark |
| 17 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 easy | csubj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 persuade | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 king | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 king | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 king | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 king | cop |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 king | nmod:poss |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 persuade | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | infinitive | the other jackals | my wonderful color | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer color=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | should | the other jackals not said here | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | persuade | to-infinitive | me | rejoicings = rejoicing | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | should | I | rejoicings's king | rejoicings = rejoicing nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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