The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 88
“Go, bring the young man here, for I think he must be a god.”
Who acts: you, I, Father · What happens: go, bring, think, be · To what, where: young man, god · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. 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, Father), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 bring | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | advcl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 god | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 god | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 god | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 god | det |
| 17 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 think | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the young man | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | |||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | must | Father | a god | tree rules |
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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