The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 48
But the young Prince replied: “Dear Mother, if I do not find that parrot, neither you nor my uncles can be liberated.
Who acts: young Prince · What happens: reply, not find, liberate · To what, where: Dear Mother, parrot, you · 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 (young Prince), 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 | _ | 5 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Prince | amod |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mother | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mother | punct |
| 8 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Mother | amod |
| 9 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 find | advmod |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Mother | conj |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 parrot | det |
| 17 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 liberated | punct |
| 19 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 liberated | cc:preconj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 liberated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 uncles | cc |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 uncles | nmod:poss |
| 23 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 you | conj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 liberated | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 liberated | aux:pass |
| 26 | liberated | liberate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 find | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the young Prince | Dear Mother | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | the young Prince = prince | that parrot | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=Topic | ||||
| 3 | liberate in a quote | can · passive | you | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=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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