The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 46
But it is impossible that the parrot should come to any harm, both because of the inaccessibility of the country, and because I have many thousands of genii surrounding the palm trees, who kill anyone attempting to approach the place.”
Who acts: parrot, I, genii, palm trees · What happens: be, come, have, surround, kill, attempt · To what, where: both, harm, many thousands, palm trees, anyone, place
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 (parrot, I, genii, palm trees), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 impossible | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 impossible | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 impossible | cop |
| 4 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parrot | det |
| 7 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 impossible | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 harm | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 harm | det |
| 12 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 both | punct |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 come | obl |
| 15 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 inaccessibility | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 because | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 inaccessibility | det |
| 18 | inaccessibility | inaccessibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 country | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 country | det |
| 21 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 inaccessibility | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 have | cc |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 have | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 impossible | parataxis |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 thousands | amod |
| 28 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 genii | case |
| 30 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 thousands | nmod |
| 31 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 genii | acl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 trees | det |
| 33 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 trees | compound |
| 34 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 surrounding | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 kill | punct |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 kill | nsubj |
| 37 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 trees | acl:relcl |
| 38 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 37 kill | obj |
| 39 | attempting | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 anyone | acl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 approach | mark |
| 41 | approach | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 attempting | xcomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 place | det |
| 43 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 approach | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 impossible | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | should | the parrot | both | any harm | because the inaccessibility of the country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | have | present | I | many thousands of genii | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | ||||
| 4 | surround | gerund | genii not said here | the palm trees | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | kill | present | the palm trees | anyone | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | ||||
| 6 | attempt | gerund | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | approach not said to happen | to-infinitive | the place | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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