The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 28
The fakir told him the way, and said, “I pray for your success, and this will come to you if you will observe the two following conditions: First, do not draw sword, and next, kill no woman.”
Who acts: fakir, this, Rájá · What happens: tell, say, pray, come, observe, follow · To what, where: way, Rájá, two following conditions, sword, woman · 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 (fakir, this, Rájá), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fakir | det |
| 2 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pray | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 pray | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pray | nsubj |
| 13 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 success | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 success | nmod:poss |
| 16 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pray | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 come | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 come | obl |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 observe | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 observe | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 observe | aux |
| 27 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 conditions | det |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 conditions | nummod |
| 30 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 conditions | amod |
| 31 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 observe | obj |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 First | punct |
| 33 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 observe | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 draw | punct |
| 35 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 draw | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 draw | advmod |
| 37 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 come | conj |
| 38 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 draw | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 kill | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 kill | cc |
| 41 | next | next | ADV | _ | 43 kill | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 next | punct |
| 43 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 44 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 45 woman | det |
| 45 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 kill | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 kill | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the fakir | the way | Rájá | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the fakir not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | present | the fakir = fakir | for your success | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for success=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | future | this | Rájá | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | observe a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | Rájá | the two following conditions | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent condition=Topic | |||
| 6 | follow in a quote | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | not draw in a quote | infinitive · do-support | this not said here | sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 8 | kill in a quote | infinitive | no woman | next property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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