The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 81
Whoever shall snuff the powder in this box, and at the same time pronounce the word ‘Mutabor!’ can transform himself into any creature he likes, and will understand the language of all animals.
Who acts: Whoever, word, Selim · What happens: snuff, pronounce, transform, like, understand · To what, where: powder, box, Selim, creature, language
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 (Whoever, word, Selim), 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 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 snuff | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 snuff | aux |
| 3 | snuff | snuff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 powder | det |
| 5 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snuff | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 box | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 box | det |
| 8 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snuff | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pronounce | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pronounce | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pronounce | obl |
| 15 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 snuff | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 word | det |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 transform | nsubj |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mutabor | punct |
| 19 | Mutabor | Mutabor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 word | appos |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mutabor | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mutabor | punct |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 transform | aux |
| 23 | transform | transform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 pronounce | ccomp |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 transform | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 creature | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 creature | det |
| 27 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 transform | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 likes | nsubj |
| 29 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 creature | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 understand | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 understand | cc |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 understand | aux |
| 33 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 snuff | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 language | det |
| 35 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 understand | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 animals | case |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 animals | det |
| 38 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 language | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 snuff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snuff | shall | Whoever | the powder | this box | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pronounce | infinitive | Whoever not said here | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | transform | can | the word | Selim | into any creature result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into creature=Result | |||
| 4 | like | present | Selim | any creature not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot creature=Theme | ||||
| 5 | understand | future | the language of all animals | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |
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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