The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 94
Bar not thy door to the stranger, be he friend or be he foe, For the tree will shade the woodman while his axe doth lay it low.
Who acts: Bar, book, tree, axe · What happens: be, shade, do, lay · To what, where: friend, foe, woodman, axe
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 (Bar, book, tree, axe), 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 | Bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friend | nsubj |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 door | advmod |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 door | nmod:poss |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bar | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 stranger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stranger | det |
| 7 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bar | punct |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 friend | cop |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nsubj |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 foe | cc |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 foe | cop |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 foe | nsubj |
| 15 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friend | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shade | punct |
| 17 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 shade | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shade | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 shade | aux |
| 21 | shade | shade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 friend | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woodman | det |
| 23 | woodman | woodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shade | obj |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 doth | mark |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 axe | nmod:poss |
| 26 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 doth | nsubj |
| 27 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 lay | advcl |
| 28 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 shade | parataxis |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lay | obj |
| 30 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lay | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | Bar thy door to the stranger | friend or foe | book nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | book | foe | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shade | future | the tree | the woodman | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodman=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | do | present | book's axe | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lay | present | axe | low property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result |
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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