The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 123
Let us tell him that neither of you will marry my daughter, and then after he has gone, we shall have the wedding.”
Who acts: you, us, neither, Sultan, we · What happens: let, tell, marry, go, have · To what, where: us, Sultan, daughter, wedding · Speech: someone speaks here
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, us, neither, Sultan), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 marry | mark |
| 6 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 marry | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 neither | nmod |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 marry | aux |
| 10 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | advcl |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marry | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 have | advmod |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 gone | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | aux |
| 19 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 have | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gone | punct |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wedding | det |
| 25 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | us not said here | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | marry | future | neither of you | my daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | present · perfect | Sultan | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | shall | we | the wedding | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=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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