The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 65
But you know the law of this country which says that honors may be conferred upon no one who has not proved worthy to receive them.
Who acts: you, country, one · What happens: know, say, confer, not prove, receive · To what, where: law, honors, virtue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, country, one), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 know | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 law | det |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 law | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 says | nsubj |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 country | acl:relcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 conferred | mark |
| 12 | honors | honor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 conferred | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 conferred | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 conferred | aux:pass |
| 15 | conferred | confer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 says | ccomp |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 conferred | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 proved | nsubj |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 proved | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 proved | advmod |
| 22 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 proved | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 receive | mark |
| 25 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 worthy | xcomp |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 receive | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | the law of this country | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | this country | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | confer | may · passive | honors | upon no one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not prove | present · perfect | no one | worthy property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | receive | to-infinitive | no one not said here | virtue | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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