The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 35
Then try to find out where his power lies, and if it is possible to put him to death.”
Who acts: you, power, it · What happens: try, find out, lie, be, put · To what, where: Balna
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, power, it), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 try | advmod |
| 2 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 try | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 find | compound:prt |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 lies | advmod |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 power | nmod:poss |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | nsubj |
| 9 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 possible | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 possible | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 possible | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 possible | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 possible | cop |
| 15 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 try | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 possible | csubj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 try | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | imperative | you not said here | then | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | find out not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lie | present | Balna's power | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put | to-infinitive | Balna | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
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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