The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 14
Far be it from me to slay such a man.”
What happens: be, slay · To what, where: match, man
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: 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 slay | advmod |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Far | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Far | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 slay | mark |
| 7 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 man | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slay | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slay | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | match | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | slay | to-infinitive | such man | far property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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