Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 21
I am, said he, bursting into tears, your only brother! and immediately fell on his neck, and embraced him with great tenderness.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: be, say, burst, fall, embrace · To what, where: I, tears, neck, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 I | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 I | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bursting | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bursting | punct |
| 7 | bursting | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 tears | case |
| 9 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bursting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brother | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brother | amod |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tears | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 bursting | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 16 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 17 fell | advmod |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 neck | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neck | nmod:poss |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 embraced | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 embraced | cc |
| 23 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 embraced | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 tenderness | case |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tenderness | amod |
| 27 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 embraced | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | burst | gerund | man | tears and your only brother | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | I not said here | man's neck | immediately property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location | |||
| 5 | embrace | past | I not said here | man | with great tenderness | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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