The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 59
Or if needs you must stay; ere the next game you play Place your hand in your pocket, I pray!”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: need, stay, ere, play, pray · To what, where: next game, pocket, Place
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, I), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 stay | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 needs | mark |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | aux |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 ere | punct |
| 8 | ere | ere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stay | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 game | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 game | amod |
| 11 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ere | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 play | nsubj |
| 13 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 game | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Place | Place | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 play | obj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ere | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 pocket | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 19 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ere | obl | ||
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pray | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 pray | nsubj |
| 22 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | advcl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need a condition, not said to happen | present | you not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | stay | must | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ere | infinitive | you not said here | the next game | your pocket | your hand obj | tree rules | ||
| 4 | play | present | you | Place | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pray | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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