The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 25
If you wish to fight us we are very willing to have it so, but we will not allow you to destroy our home.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: wish, fight, be, have, not allow, destroy · To what, where: us, great, you, home · 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, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 wish | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 allow | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 fight | mark |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fight | obj |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 willing | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 willing | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 willing | advmod |
| 10 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wish | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 willing | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 have | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 allow | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 allow | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 allow | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 allow | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 allow | advmod |
| 20 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 allow | iobj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 destroy | mark |
| 23 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 allow | xcomp |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 home | nmod:poss |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 destroy | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 allow | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 allow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | us | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | we | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | we not said here | great | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not allow | future | we | you | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | destroy not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | our home | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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