The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 93

Give me this child to wife; and if you will vow, by all you hold sacred, never again to play chaupur for another’s head, I will spare yours now!”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, vow, hold, play, spare · To what, where: child, me, chaupur, yours

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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Give	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 wife	mark
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 child	acl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 vow	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 vow	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 vow	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 vow	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 vow	aux
12	vow	vow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 all	punct
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 vow	obl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 hold	nsubj
17	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 all	acl:relcl
18	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hold	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 play	punct
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 again	advmod
21	again	again	ADV	_	23 play	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 play	mark
23	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 vow	conj
24	chaupur	chaupur	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 play	obj
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 head	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 head	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 another	case
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 play	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 spare	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 spare	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 spare	aux
32	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 vow	conj
33	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 spare	obj
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 spare	advmod
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	this child wife	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=Theme
2	vow a condition, not said to happen	future	you				by all	tree rules
3	hold	present	you				sacred property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	to-infinitive	you not said here	chaupur		again; never	for another's head	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme for head=Eventuality
5	spare	future	I	yours		now		vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent your=Asset

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 93

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Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 93