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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 61

Ho!” said the Jackal to himself, “If I can only win the confidence of this Deer, it may be that he will make a very fine meal for me.”

Who acts: Ho, I · What happens: say, win, be, make, confide · To what, where: Ho, confidence, fine meal, Deer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ho, I), 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

nsubjpunctpunctdetnsubjcaseoblpunctpunctmarknsubjauxadvmodparataxisdetobjcasedetnmodpunctnsubjparataxisconjmarknsubjauxccompdetadvmodamodobjcasenmodpunctpunctrootHoPROPN!PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETJackalPROPNtoADPhimselfPRON,PUNCT“PUNCTIfSCONJIPRONcanAUXonlyADVwinVERBtheDETconfidenceNOUNofADPthisDETDeerPROPN,PUNCTitPRONmayAUXbeVERBthatSCONJhePRONwillAUXmakeVERBaDETveryADVfineADJmealNOUNforADPmePRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HoHoPROPNNumber=Sing4 saidnsubj
2!!PUNCT_1 Hopunct
3”"PUNCT_1 Hopunct
4saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Jackaldet
6JackalJackalPROPNNumber=Sing4 saidnsubj
7totoADP_8 himselfcase
8himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes4 saidobl
9,,PUNCT_15 winpunct
10“"PUNCT_15 winpunct
11IfifSCONJ_15 winmark
12IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs15 winnsubj
13cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin15 winaux
14onlyonlyADV_15 winadvmod
15winwinVERBVerbForm=Inf4 saidparataxis
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 confidencedet
17confidenceconfidenceNOUNNumber=Sing15 winobj
18ofofADP_20 Deercase
19thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem20 Deerdet
20DeerDeerPROPNNumber=Sing17 confidencenmod
21,,PUNCT_15 winpunct
22ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 maynsubj
23maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin15 winparataxis
24bebeVERBVerbForm=Inf23 mayconj
25thatthatSCONJ_28 makemark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 makensubj
27willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin28 makeaux
28makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf24 beccomp
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 mealdet
30veryveryADV_31 fineadvmod
31finefineADJDegree=Pos32 mealamod
32mealmealNOUNNumber=Sing28 makeobj
33forforADP_34 mecase
34meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs32 mealnmod
35..PUNCT_15 winpunct
36”"PUNCT_15 winpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assert in a quotepastHoHothe Jackal nsubjvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2win a condition, not said to happencanIthe confidence of this Deervn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Eventuality
3beinfinitiveI not said heretree rules
4makefutureHoa fine mealfor mevn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meal=Product for i=Beneficiary
5confidethis Deernom confidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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