The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 22
Know that when I speak all beasts of the forest and the wilderness bow before me, and tremble.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: know, speak · To what, where: tremble, beasts · 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, I), 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 | Know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 speak | mark |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 speak | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 speak | nsubj |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Know | ccomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 beasts | det |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 speak | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beasts | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bow | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bow | det |
| 13 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bow | compound |
| 14 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forest | conj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 speak | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tremble | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tremble | cc |
| 19 | tremble | tremble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Know | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | imperative | you not said here | tremble | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | I | all beasts of the forest and the wilderness bow | before me | 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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