The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 92
It is not possible that you, who must know the law of strangers, could think of slaying me.
Who acts: wisdom · What happens: not be, know, think, slay · To what, where: law, me
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 (wisdom), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 possible | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 possible | advmod |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 possible | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 know | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 possible | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 law | det |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 know | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 strangers | case |
| 14 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 law | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 think | aux |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 slaying | mark |
| 19 | slaying | slay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 think | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 slaying | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | wisdom | that you; possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | must | the law of strangers | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer law=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | could | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | slay | gerund | me | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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