The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 16
Will you not consent to see these five brave knights, one at a time, and make up your mind which of them you will marry?”
Who acts: you, your · What happens: not consent, see, make up, marry, mind · To what, where: five brave knights, mind
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 consent | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 consent | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 consent | advmod |
| 4 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 consent | xcomp |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 five | det |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 knights | nummod |
| 9 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 knights | amod |
| 10 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 knights | appos |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 consent | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 make | compound:prt |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 marry | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 which | obl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 marry | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 marry | aux |
| 27 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 make | conj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 consent | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 consent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not consent | future | you | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | five brave knights | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make up | infinitive | your mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | marry | future | you | which of knights obj | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 5 | mind | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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