The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 100
However, if you are determined to go and play chaupur with him, take some of the bones from this graveyard, and make your dice out of them, and then the enchanted dice with which my brother plays will lose their virtue.
Who acts: you, brother · What happens: be, go, play, take, make, enchant · To what, where: chaupur, some, graveyard, dice, virtue
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brother), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 determined | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 determined | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 determined | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 determined | cop |
| 6 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 determined | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 play | cc |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 11 | chaupur | chaupur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 play | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 play | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 play | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bones | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bones | det |
| 19 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 some | nmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 graveyard | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 graveyard | det |
| 22 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 make | cc |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 take | conj |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 dice | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 make | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dice | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dice | cc |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 dice | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dice | det |
| 35 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 dice | amod |
| 36 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 determined | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 plays | obl |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 brother | nmod:poss |
| 40 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 plays | nsubj |
| 41 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 dice | parataxis |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 lose | aux |
| 43 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 plays | xcomp |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 virtue | nmod:poss |
| 45 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lose | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | the enchanted dice conj; determined, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play | infinitive | you not said here | chaupur | with Rasalu | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with he=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | take | infinitive | you not said here | some of the bones | this graveyard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent some=Theme from graveyard=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | make | infinitive | you not said here | your dice | out bones = bone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dice=Product | |||
| 6 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | play | present | my brother | with the enchanted dice | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | lose | future | my brother not said here | bones's virtue | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Eventuality |
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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