The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 104

“If he is so bent with age that he cannot see, talk, or walk, tickle him in the ribs and that will make him young again; and, my Brother, carry him here yourself lest one of the slaves should let him fall and he should hurt himself.”

Who acts: Sultan, you, that, Brother, one · What happens: bend, not see, talk, walk, tickle, make · To what, where: Sultan, ribs

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, you, that, Brother), 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	_	15 talk	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 bent	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bent	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bent	aux:pass
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 bent	advmod
6	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 talk	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 age	case
8	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bent	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 see	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 see	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 see	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 see	advmod
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bent	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bent	punct
15	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 walk	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 walk	cc
18	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 talk	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tickle	punct
20	tickle	tickle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 walk	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tickle	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 ribs	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ribs	det
24	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tickle	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 make	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 talk	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	obj
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 make	xcomp
31	again	again	ADV	_	28 make	advmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 carry	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 carry	cc
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 and	punct
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 Brother	nmod:poss
36	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 carry	nsubj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Brother	punct
38	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 talk	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 carry	obj
40	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 carry	advmod
41	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 carry	obl
42	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	48 let	mark
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 let	nsubj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 slaves	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 slaves	det
46	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 one	nmod
47	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 let	aux
48	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 carry	advcl
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 let	obj
50	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 let	xcomp
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 hurt	cc
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 hurt	nsubj
53	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 hurt	aux
54	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 let	conj
55	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	54 hurt	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 talk	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend in a quote	present · passive		Sultan		with age		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with age=Instrument
2	not see in a quote	can	Sultan					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	talk in a quote	imperative	you not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	walk in a quote	infinitive	you not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tickle in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	Sultan	the ribs			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer
6	make in a quote	future	that	Sultan		again	young property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
7	carry in a quote	infinitive	my Brother	Sultan	here		yourself obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
8	let in a quote	should	one of the slaves	Sultan				tree rules
9	fall in a quote	infinitive	Sultan not said here					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	hurt in a quote	should	Sultan	Sultan				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Patient

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 24, sentence 104