The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 19
Take our advice and seek another well, or trouble will visit you.”
Who acts: you, trouble · What happens: take, seek, visit · To what, where: advice, another, you
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, trouble), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 advice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seek | cc |
| 5 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 seek | obj |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 seek | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 visit | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 visit | cc |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visit | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 visit | aux |
| 12 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 visit | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | our advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | you not said here | another | well property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme | |||
| 3 | visit | future | trouble | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
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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