The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 17
But the Rájá answered sternly, “A wise man will finish the enterprise upon which he starts, and only a fool will confess to failure.”
Who acts: Rájá, wise man, man, fool · What happens: answer, finish, start, confess · To what, where: enterprise, failure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rájá, wise man, man, fool), 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rájá | det |
| 3 | Rájá | Rájá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 4 answered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 finish | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 finish | punct |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finish | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 finish | aux |
| 12 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 enterprise | det |
| 14 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finish | obj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 starts | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 starts | nsubj |
| 18 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 enterprise | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 confess | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 confess | cc |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 fool | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fool | det |
| 23 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 confess | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 confess | aux |
| 25 | confess | confess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 finish | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 failure | case |
| 27 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 confess | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 finish | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 finish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Rájá | sternly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | finish in a quote | future | a wise man | the enterprise | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector enterprise=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | start in a quote | present | man | upon the enterprise | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | confess in a quote | future | a fool | failure | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to failure=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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