The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 45

“No, do not cut me down and I will give you a net which you may cast on dry ground, or even in the tree tops, and it will return full of fish.”

Who acts: you, tree, net · What happens: not cut down, give, cast, return · To what, where: tree, net, you, dry ground

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, net), 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	_	6 cut	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cut	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cut	advmod
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cut	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 give	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cut	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 net	det
15	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 cast	nsubj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 cast	nsubj
18	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 cast	aux
19	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 net	acl:relcl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ground	amod
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cast	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tops	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 tops	cc
25	even	even	ADV	_	29 tops	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 tops	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tops	det
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tops	compound
29	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ground	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 return	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 return	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 return	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 return	aux
34	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cut	conj
35	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 return	xcomp
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 fish	case
37	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 full	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not cut down in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here	the tree = tree				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
2	give in a quote	future	the tree = tree	a net	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient net=Theme
3	cast in a quote	may	a net			dry ground or the tree tops	you nsubj	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination
4	return in a quote	future	net				full property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 22, sentence 45