The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 78
“Don’t fall asleep upon the mountain; we want you to come back and light them for us.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: not fall, want, come back, light · To what, where: mountain, you, LANTERNS
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, we), 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 | _ | 4 fall | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | aux |
| 3 | n’t | n't | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | aux |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fall | xcomp |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 mountain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountain | det |
| 8 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 want | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | xcomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 light | cc |
| 17 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 light | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 light | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fall in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the mountain | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon mountain=Location | |||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | we | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come back not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | light in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | LANTERNS = lantern | for us | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Product for we=Beneficiary |
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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