Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 17

So far as my instructions go, I should be prepared, within certain limits, to hold a brief for India.

Who acts: instructions, I, my · What happens: go, be, hold, instruct · To what, where: brief

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (instructions, I, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:14): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 prepared	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 go	mark
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 instructions	nmod:poss
5	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 far	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 far	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 prepared	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 prepared	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 prepared	cop
11	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 limits	punct
13	within	within	ADP	_	15 limits	case
14	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 limits	amod
15	limits	limit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 prepared	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hold	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hold	mark
18	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 prepared	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 brief	det
20	brief	brief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hold	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 India	case
22	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 hold	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	my instructions			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	should	I		within certain limits; far, prepared property	tree rules
3	hold	to-infinitive	I not said here	a brief	for India	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brief=Theme
4	instruct		my			nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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