The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 68
“I do not know what they may contain, but as they are of no use to me, you are welcome to have them for a trifle.”
Who acts: pedler, Caliph, you · What happens: not know, contain, be, have · To what, where: pedler, Caliph · 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 (pedler, Caliph, you), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 contain | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 contain | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 contain | aux |
| 9 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 welcome | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 welcome | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 use | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 use | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 use | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 use | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 use | det |
| 17 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 welcome | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 use | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 use | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 welcome | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 welcome | cop |
| 23 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 know | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 welcome | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 have | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 trifle | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 trifle | det |
| 29 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the pedler = pedler | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | contain in a quote | may | Caliph | what obj | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Caliph | the pedler = pedler | of no use | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Caliph | for a trifle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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