The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 42
But the giantess replied, “You may indeed capture me, O King, but take notice that in this very country which you have invaded your head shall be smitten from your body.”
Who acts: giantess, You · What happens: reply, capture, take, invade, smite · To what, where: giantess, notice, country, body · 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 (giantess, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 giantess | det |
| 3 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 capture | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 capture | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 capture | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 capture | aux |
| 9 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 capture | advmod |
| 10 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 capture | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 King | punct |
| 13 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | compound |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 capture | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 take | cc |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 capture | parataxis |
| 18 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 smitten | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 country | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 country | advmod |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 smitten | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 invaded | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 invaded | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 invaded | aux |
| 27 | invaded | invade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 country | acl:relcl |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 invaded | obj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 smitten | aux |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 smitten | aux:pass |
| 32 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 notice | appos |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 body | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 body | nmod:poss |
| 35 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 smitten | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 capture | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 capture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the giantess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | capture in a quote | may | You | the giantess = giantess | O King parataxis; indeed property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | notice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | |||||
| 4 | invade in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this country | you nsubj; your head obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | smite in a quote | shall · passive | this country | your body | that obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer that=Result |
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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