The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 9

King Sarkap my coming will rue, His head in four pieces I’ll hew; Then forth as a bridegroom I’ll ride, With you, little maid, as my bride!”

Who acts: King, I · What happens: come, rue, hew, ride · To what, where: head, four pieces, little maid

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 (King, 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 coming	nsubj
2	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 King	flat
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 coming	nsubj
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 rue	advcl
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rue	aux
6	rue	rue	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 head	punct
8	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rue	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pieces	case
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 pieces	nummod
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rue	obl
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 hew	nsubj
14	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hew	aux
15	hew	hew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pieces	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 ride	punct
17	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 forth	advmod
18	forth	forth	ADV	_	24 ride	advmod
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 bridegroom	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bridegroom	det
21	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ride	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ride	nsubj
23	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 ride	aux
24	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 rue	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 you	punct
26	With	with	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 ride	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 maid	punct
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 maid	amod
30	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ride	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bride	punct
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 bride	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 bride	nmod:poss
34	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ride	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 rue	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 rue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund	King				my nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rue	future		King's head	four pieces			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
3	hew	future	I	four pieces not said here				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient
4	ride	future	I	little maid		then	as a bridegroom; with you; as my bride; forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 9