The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 34
Say that you have given up all hopes of seeing your husband again, and that you are willing to marry him.
Who acts: you, hopes · What happens: say, give up, see, be, marry · To what, where: hopes, husband, Balna · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hopes), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 given | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 given | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 given | compound:prt |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hopes | det |
| 8 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 given | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 seeing | mark |
| 10 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hopes | acl |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seeing | obj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 seeing | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 willing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 willing | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 willing | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 willing | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 willing | cop |
| 19 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 marry | mark |
| 21 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 willing | xcomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 marry | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give up | present · perfect | you | all hopes | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | all hopes not said here | your husband | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | present | you | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive | you not said here | Balna | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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