The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 75
If you can, I will give you a robe of honor; but if you fail, I will order you to receive twelve strokes on your cheeks, and five-and-twenty on the soles of your feet, because you have been falsely called Selim the learned.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, fail, order, receive, call, learn · To what, where: robe, you, twelve strokes, cheeks, five · 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 (I, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 can | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 can | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 can | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 robe | det |
| 10 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 honor | case |
| 12 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 robe | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 order | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 order | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 fail | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 fail | nsubj |
| 17 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 order | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fail | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 order | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 order | aux |
| 21 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 give | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 order | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 receive | mark |
| 24 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 order | advcl |
| 25 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 strokes | nummod |
| 26 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 receive | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 cheeks | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 29 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 strokes | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 called | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 called | cc |
| 32 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 called | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 twenty | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 twenty | cc |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 twenty | punct |
| 36 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 five | conj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 soles | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 soles | det |
| 39 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 twenty | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 feet | case |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 feet | nmod:poss |
| 42 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 soles | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 called | punct |
| 44 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 49 called | mark |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 called | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 called | aux |
| 47 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 called | aux:pass |
| 48 | falsely | falsely | ADV | _ | 49 called | advmod |
| 49 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 give | parataxis |
| 50 | Selim | Selim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 called | xcomp |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 learned | det |
| 52 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 called | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can · future | I | a robe of honor | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient robe=Theme | |||
| 2 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | order | future | I | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | receive | to-infinitive | I not said here | twelve strokes | your cheeks | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stroke=Theme on cheek=Location | |||
| 5 | call | present · perfect · passive | five | you nsubj:pass; Selim xcomp; falsely property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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