The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 40
Sisters, don’t give her any more wood; let her use her own.”
Who acts: Sisters, Balna · What happens: not give, let, use · To what, where: wood, Balna, own
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 (Sisters, Balna), 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 | Sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sisters | punct |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 more | advmod |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 wood | advmod |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 own | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 use | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | infinitive · do-support | Sisters | wood | Balna | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Sisters not said here | Balna | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | infinitive | Balna not said here | Balna's own | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Patient |
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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