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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 42

“Because,” she replied, “if I am to be your wife, I want to know all about you, so that if any calamity threatens you, I may help to overcome, or perhaps avert it.”

Who acts: wedding, calamity, you · What happens: reply, be, want, know, threaten, help · To what, where: wife, all, you, calamity · 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 (wedding, calamity, 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

punctmarkpunctpunctnsubjadvclpunctpunctmarknsubjadvclmarkcopnmod:possccomppunctnsubjconjmarkxcompobjcasenmodpunctadvmodmarkmarkdetnsubjadvclobjpunctnsubjauxadvclmarkxcomppunctccadvmodobjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTBecauseSCONJ,PUNCT”PUNCTshePRONrepliedVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTifSCONJIPRONamAUXtoPARTbeAUXyourPRONwifeNOUN,PUNCTIPRONwantVERBtoPARTknowVERBallDETaboutADPyouPRON,PUNCTsoADVthatSCONJifSCONJanyDETcalamityNOUNthreatensVERByouPRON,PUNCTIPRONmayAUXhelpVERBtoPARTovercomeVERB,PUNCTorCCONJperhapsADVavertVERBitPRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_6 repliedpunct
2BecausebecauseSCONJ_6 repliedmark
3,,PUNCT_2 Becausepunct
4”"PUNCT_2 Becausepunct
5sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 repliednsubj
6repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin41 avertadvcl
7,,PUNCT_18 wantpunct
8“"PUNCT_18 wantpunct
9ififSCONJ_11 ammark
10IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs11 amnsubj
11ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 wantadvcl
12totoPART_15 wifemark
13bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf15 wifecop
14youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 wifenmod:poss
15wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing11 amccomp
16,,PUNCT_11 ampunct
17IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs18 wantnsubj
18wantwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 repliedconj
19totoPART_20 knowmark
20knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf18 wantxcomp
21allallDETPronType=Tot20 knowobj
22aboutaboutADP_23 youcase
23youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs21 allnmod
24,,PUNCT_35 helppunct
25sosoADV_35 helpadvmod
26thatthatSCONJ_30 threatensmark
27ififSCONJ_30 threatensmark
28anyanyDETPronType=Ind29 calamitydet
29calamitycalamityNOUNNumber=Sing30 threatensnsubj
30threatensthreatenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 helpadvcl
31youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs30 threatensobj
32,,PUNCT_30 threatenspunct
33IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs35 helpnsubj
34maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin35 helpaux
35helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf6 repliedadvcl
36totoPART_37 overcomemark
37overcomeovercomeVERBVerbForm=Inf35 helpxcomp
38,,PUNCT_41 avertpunct
39ororCCONJ_41 avertcc
40perhapsperhapsADV_41 avertadvmod
41avertavertVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
42ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs41 avertobj
43..PUNCT_41 avertpunct
44”"PUNCT_41 avertpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastweddingvn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2is a in a quoteto-infinitivewedding not said hereyour wifeyour nmod:posstree rules
3want in a quotepresentweddingvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4know not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivewedding not said hereallabout youvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus
5threaten in a quotepresentany calamityyouvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
6help in a quotemayweddingvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7overcome in a quoteto-infinitivewedding not said herevn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
8avert in a quoteimperativeyou not said herecalamityperhaps propertytree 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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