The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 32
If we continue to allow her to come here, we shall some day be sorry for it.”
Who acts: we · What happens: continue, allow, come, be · To what, where: woman
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 continue | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 continue | nsubj |
| 3 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sorry | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 allow | mark |
| 5 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continue | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 allow | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allow | xcomp |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 continue | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sorry | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 sorry | aux |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sorry | nsubj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sorry | cop |
| 16 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sorry | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorry | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue a condition, not said to happen | present | we | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | allow | to-infinitive | we not said here | woman | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | shall | we | for fire; sorry property | tree rules |
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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