The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 34
“If you do not cut me I will give you a goat that shakes silver from its whiskers.”
Who acts: you, tree, goat · What happens: not cut, give, shake · To what, where: tree, goat, you, silver, whiskers
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tree, goat), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 cut | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 cut | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cut | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 cut | advmod |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | csubj |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 cut | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 goat | det |
| 13 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shakes | nsubj |
| 15 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 goat | acl:relcl |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shakes | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 whiskers | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shakes | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cut a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | you | tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | tree | a goat | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient goat=Theme | |||
| 3 | shake in a quote | present | a goat | silver | silver's whiskers | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent silver=Theme from whisker=Trajectory |
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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