The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 69
Be careful what you do, for your reward will be that which you merit.”
Who acts: you, reward, your · What happens: be, do, merit, reward · To what, where: reward
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, reward, your), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 careful | cop |
| 2 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reward | csubj |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 careful | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reward | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 reward | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 reward | nmod:poss |
| 9 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 which | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 which | cop |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 which | mark |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 merit | nsubj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 merit | nsubj |
| 15 | merit | merit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 reward | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reward | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | present | you | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | future | your reward | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | merit | present | your reward | you nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | reward | your | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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