The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 11
We did not ask you to come here and drink up our home, and you are not welcome.”
Who acts: We, you · What happens: not ask, come, drink up, not be · To what, where: you, home
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 (We, you), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | xcomp |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drink | cc |
| 10 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 come | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 drink | compound:prt |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 home | nmod:poss |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drink | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 welcome | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 welcome | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 welcome | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 welcome | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 welcome | advmod |
| 19 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ask | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask | past · do-support | We | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | We not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drink up | infinitive | We not said here | our home | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | you | welcome property | 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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