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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 40

“You ask too much,” said the King, “and I am afraid I cannot retain you, but I will confer with my Ministers about you.”

Who acts: You, King · What happens: ask, say, be, not retain, confer · To what, where: much, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, King), 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

punctnsubjccompadvmodobjpunctpunctdetnsubjpunctpunctccnsubjcopadvclnsubjauxadvmodccompobjpunctccnsubjauxccompcasenmod:possoblcasenmodpunctpunctroot“PUNCTYouPRONaskVERBtooADVmuchADJ,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETKingPROPN,PUNCT“PUNCTandCCONJIPRONamAUXafraidADJIPRONcanAUXnotPARTretainVERByouPRON,PUNCTbutCCONJIPRONwillAUXconferVERBwithADPmyPRONMinistersNOUNaboutADPyouPRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_3 askpunct
2YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs3 asknsubj
3askaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 saidccomp
4tootooADV_5 muchadvmod
5muchmuchADJDegree=Pos3 askobj
6,,PUNCT_3 askpunct
7”"PUNCT_3 askpunct
8saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Kingdet
10KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing8 saidnsubj
11,,PUNCT_16 afraidpunct
12“"PUNCT_16 afraidpunct
13andandCCONJ_16 afraidcc
14IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs16 afraidnsubj
15ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 afraidcop
16afraidafraidADJDegree=Pos8 saidadvcl
17IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs20 retainnsubj
18cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin20 retainaux
19notnotPARTPolarity=Neg20 retainadvmod
20retainretainVERBVerbForm=Inf16 afraidccomp
21youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs20 retainobj
22,,PUNCT_26 conferpunct
23butbutCCONJ_26 confercc
24IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 confernsubj
25willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin26 conferaux
26conferconferVERBVerbForm=Inf8 saidccomp
27withwithADP_29 Ministerscase
28mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 Ministersnmod:poss
29MinistersministerNOUNNumber=Plur26 conferobl
30aboutaboutADP_31 youcase
31youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs29 Ministersnmod
32..PUNCT_26 conferpunct
33”"PUNCT_26 conferpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ask speech: ask in a quotepresentYoumuchvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Recipient
2say speech: assertpastthe Kingvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3is in a quotepresentthe King = kingafraid propertytree rules
4not retain in a quotecanthe King = kingyoutree rules
5confer in a quotefuturethe King = kingwith my Ministers about youvn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with minister=Co-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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