The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 54
Whilst I was fainting with terror he transported me here, and cried to me with his awful voice: ‘There shall you remain, lonely and hideous, despised even by the brutes, till the end of your days, or till someone of his own free will asks you to be his wife.
Who acts: I, wretch, you · What happens: faint, transport, cry, remain, despise, ask · To what, where: me, you, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wretch, you), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 4 fainting | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fainting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fainting | aux |
| 4 | fainting | faint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 transported | advcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 terror | case |
| 6 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fainting | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 transported | nsubj |
| 8 | transported | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 transported | obj |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 transported | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 transported | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 voice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 remain | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 remain | punct |
| 22 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 remain | expl |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 remain | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 remain | nsubj |
| 25 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lonely | punct |
| 27 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 remain | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hideous | cc |
| 29 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lonely | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 despised | punct |
| 31 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 remain | conj |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 brutes | advmod |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 brutes | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 brutes | det |
| 35 | brutes | brute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 despised | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 end | punct |
| 37 | till | till | ADP | _ | 39 end | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 end | det |
| 39 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 despised | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 days | case |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 days | nmod:poss |
| 42 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 end | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 someone | punct |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 46 someone | cc |
| 45 | till | till | ADP | _ | 46 someone | case |
| 46 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 transported | parataxis |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 free | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 free | nmod:poss |
| 49 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 free | amod |
| 50 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 someone | nmod |
| 51 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 asks | aux |
| 52 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 someone | parataxis |
| 53 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 asks | obj |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 57 wife | mark |
| 55 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 57 wife | cop |
| 56 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 wife | nmod:poss |
| 57 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 asks | ccomp |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 transported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past · progressive | I | with terror | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | transport | past | wretch | me | here | someone of wretch's own free parataxis | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | wretch not said here | me | with wretch's awful voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | remain | shall | you | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | despise | participle | you not said here | till the end of your days | by the brutes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | future | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | wretch's wife | wretch nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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