--- title: Do not speak to the boatman, and whatever extraordinary circumstance… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Do not speak to the boatman, and whatever extraordinary circumstance you observe, say nothing; for I tell you beforehand that if you utter one word when we are embarked, the boat will sink.” Who acts: you, I, boat. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Cou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/17/91/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/17/) / 91 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 91 Do not speak to the boatman, and whatever extraordinary circumstance you observe, say nothing; for I tell you beforehand that if you utter one word when we are embarked, the boat will sink.” **Who acts:** you, I, boat · **What happens:** not speak, observe, say, tell, utter, embark · **To what, where:** extraordinary circumstance, nothing, you, one word, we · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, boat), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:17:91 # text = Do not speak to the boatman, and whatever extraordinary circumstance you observe, say nothing; for I tell you beforehand that if you utter one word when we are embarked, the boat will sink.” 1 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 speak speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 boatman boatman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 10 extraordinary extraordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 circumstance circumstance NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 observe observe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 beforehand beforehand SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 utter utter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 30 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 embarked embark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | | | | to the boatman | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to boatman=Co-Agent | | 2 | **observe** | present | you | extraordinary circumstance *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent circumstance=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **utter** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | one word | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 6 | **embark** | present · passive | | we | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **sink** | future | the boat | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/17/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/17/92/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/17/)