The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 120
“If you give your daughter to Bantugan we shall fight forever, or until we die.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: give, fight, die · To what, where: daughter, Bantugan
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 (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 give | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Bantugan | case |
| 8 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fight | obl |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 fight | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 fight | aux |
| 11 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 12 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 11 fight | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 die | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 die | cc |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 die | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 die | nsubj |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present | you | your daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | shall | we | Bantugan | forever property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | die in a quote | present | we | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/24/120/