The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 12
If you would marry our sister you must first do our bidding, for you will be our younger brother.”
Who acts: you, our · What happens: marry, do, be, bid · To what, where: sister, bidding
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, our), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 marry | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 marry | aux |
| 4 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 do | advcl |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marry | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 do | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brother | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 brother | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 brother | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 brother | cop |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 brother | amod |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry a condition, not said to happen | would | you | our sister | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | must | you | our bidding | first property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is | future | you | for our younger brother; our nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bid | our | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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