The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 86
“But you must not try to swim,” said Yun-Ying earnestly, “for you would be instantly devoured.
Who acts: you, Yun · What happens: not try, swim, say, devour · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Yun), 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 | _ | 6 try | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 try | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 try | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 try | advmod |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 swim | mark |
| 8 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 try | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ying | punct |
| 14 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yun | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 devoured | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 devoured | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 devoured | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 devoured | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 devoured | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 devoured | aux:pass |
| 22 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 23 devoured | advmod |
| 23 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try in a quote | must | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | swim not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Yun Ying | earnestly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | devour in a quote | would · passive | you | instantly property | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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