The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 47
But for twelve years you must not look upon his face, for if either you or his father see it before the twelve years are past, you will surely die!
Who acts: you · What happens: not look, see, be, die · To what, where: face
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 look | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 3 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 look | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 look | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 look | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 look | advmod |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 15 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 16 you | cc:preconj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 father | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 you | conj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 look | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 years | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 years | det |
| 24 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 past | obl |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 past | cop |
| 27 | past | past | ADV | _ | 20 see | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 die | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 die | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 die | aux |
| 31 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 32 die | advmod |
| 32 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 look | conj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | must | you | year | upon child's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon face=Theme | |||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | you | face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | year | past property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | future | you | surely property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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