The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 61

Then Guido said: “My lord, I will sell the stone; but let me say one thing—if the price be not given, it shall be returned to me.”

Who acts: Guido, lord · What happens: say, sell, let, not give, return · To what, where: stone, Guido, one thing, price · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guido, lord), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	Guido	Guido	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 sell	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 sell	punct
6	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lord	nmod:poss
7	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sell	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lord	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 sell	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 sell	aux
11	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stone	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sell	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 sell	parataxis
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 thing	nummod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	obj
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	32 returned	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 given	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 price	det
24	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	nsubj:pass
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 given	aux:pass
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 given	advmod
27	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 returned	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 given	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 returned	nsubj:pass
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 returned	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 returned	aux:pass
32	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 let	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 me	case
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 returned	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sell	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 sell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Guido			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sell in a quote	future	My lord	the stone			I nsubj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	let in a quote	infinitive		Guido				tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Guido not said here	one thing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
5	not give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive · passive		the price				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	return in a quote	shall · passive		stone	Guido			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to i=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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 61