The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 11
“If you do not believe what I say, send one of your number with me, and he shall come back and tell you that I am to be trusted.”
Who acts: you, Crane · What happens: not believe, say, send, come back, tell, trust · To what, where: one, you, Crane · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Crane), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 believe | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | advmod |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 believe | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 send | punct |
| 11 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 believe | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 send | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 number | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 number | nmod:poss |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 number | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 come | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 believe | parataxis |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tell | cc |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 come | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 tell | iobj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 trusted | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 trusted | nsubj |
| 29 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 trusted | aux |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 trusted | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 trusted | aux:pass |
| 32 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 tell | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe in a quote | present · do-support | you | what obj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the Crane = crane | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | send in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | one of your number with me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come back in a quote | shall | Crane | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Crane not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | trust in a quote | present · passive | the Crane = crane | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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