The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 48
This is what you must do: As soon as the child is born you must send him away to a cellar underneath the ground, and never let him see the light of day for twelve years.
Who acts: This, you, child · What happens: be, do, bear, send away, not let, see · To what, where: child, light, day
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 (This, you, child), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 send | advcl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 8 | As | as | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 do | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 born | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 born | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 born | aux:pass |
| 14 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 soon | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 send | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 send | aux |
| 17 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 send | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 send | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 cellar | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cellar | det |
| 22 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 send | obl |
| 23 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 25 ground | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ground | det |
| 25 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cellar | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 let | cc |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 29 let | advmod |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 send | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 let | obj |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 let | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 light | det |
| 33 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 see | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 light | nmod |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 years | case |
| 37 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 years | nummod |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 see | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | must | you | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bear | present · passive | the child | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | send away | must | you | child | to a cellar underneath the ground; away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | not let | infinitive | you not said here | child | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | child not said here | the light of day | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | light | day | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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