The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 44
And tell him that Rasalu deems it no act of bravery to kill even an enemy by treachery.”
Who acts: you, Rasalu, bravery · What happens: tell, deem, kill, act · To what, where: Sarkap, salt, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Rasalu, bravery), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 tell | cc |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 deems | mark |
| 5 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 deems | nsubj |
| 6 | deems | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tell | ccomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 deems | obj |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 act | det |
| 9 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deems | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bravery | case |
| 11 | bravery | bravery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 act | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 kill | mark |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 act | acl |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 enemy | advmod |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 enemy | det |
| 16 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kill | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 treachery | case |
| 18 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kill | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | Sarkap | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | deem | present | Rasalu | salt | no act of bravery obj | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme act=Attribute | |||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | Rasalu not said here | a enemy | by treachery | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Theme | |||
| 4 | act | bravery | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=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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