The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 50
In the meantime, keep the Magician in good humor, and put off the marriage with him in any way you can.
Who acts: you · What happens: keep, put off · To what, where: Magician, meantime, marriage, way
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meantime | punct |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Magician | det |
| 7 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 humor | case |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 humor | amod |
| 10 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 keep | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 put | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 marriage | det |
| 16 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 can | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 way | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | the Magician | the meantime | in good humor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent magician=Theme in meantime=Location | ||
| 2 | put off | participle | you not said here | the marriage | any way | with Magician | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent marriage=Theme in way=Destination |
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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