The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 80
So Selim began to translate: “Thou who mayest find this, praise Allah for his mercy.
Who acts: Selim, Thou · What happens: begin, translate, find, praise · To what, where: this, Allah · 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 (Selim, Thou), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | Selim | Selim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 translate | mark |
| 5 | translate | translate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 8 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 find | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | parataxis |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 praise | punct |
| 14 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 find | conj |
| 15 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 praise | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 mercy | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 praise | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Selim | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | translate | to-infinitive | Selim not said here | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | may | Thou | this | who nsubj | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||
| 4 | praise in a quote | infinitive | Thou not said here | Allah | for Selim's mercy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent allah=Theme for mercy=Attribute |
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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