The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 57
“You, my friends, decide whether or not I shall give the hand of my daughter to Bantugan in marriage.”
Who acts: You, snake · What happens: decide, give · To what, where: hand, Bantugan, marriage · 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, snake), 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 | _ | 7 decide | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 decide | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 You | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 decide | punct |
| 7 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 give | mark |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 whether | fixed |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 whether | fixed |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 decide | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hand | det |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 daughter | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hand | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Bantugan | case |
| 20 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 marriage | case |
| 22 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 decide | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 decide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide in a quote | present | You | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | shall | the snake = snake | the hand of my daughter | Bantugan | marriage | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to bantugan=Recipient |
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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