The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 26

Now, as I am the descendant of the great King Bikrámájit, I make a vow never to return to my home until I have defeated the giants of whom you speak.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, make, not return, defeat, speak · To what, where: vow, giants · 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 (I, you), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 make	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	7 descendant	case
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 descendant	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 descendant	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 descendant	det
7	descendant	descendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 Bikrámájit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Bikrámájit	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Bikrámájit	amod
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Bikrámájit	compound
12	Bikrámájit	Bikrámájit	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 descendant	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 descendant	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 vow	det
17	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 return	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 return	mark
20	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 make	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 home	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 home	nmod:poss
23	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 return	obl
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 defeated	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 defeated	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 defeated	aux
27	defeated	defeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 return	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 giants	det
29	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 defeated	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 whom	case
31	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 giants	nmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 speak	nsubj
33	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 whom	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			as the descendant; of the great King Bikrámájit	tree rules
2	make	present	I	a vow	now		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product
3	not return	to-infinitive				to my home result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
4	defeat	present · perfect	I	the giants			tree rules
5	speak speech: other	present	you				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 26

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Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 26