The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 77
Besides, I am an old man, and your Highness is still young and unmarried, and a far more suitable match for a young and lovely princess.”
Who acts: I, Highness · What happens: be · To what, where: old man
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, Highness), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 7 man | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 man | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 young | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 young | cc |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 young | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 young | cop |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 young | advmod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 unmarried | cc |
| 16 | unmarried | unmarried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 young | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 match | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 match | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 match | det |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 suitable | advmod |
| 22 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 match | amod |
| 23 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 princess | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 princess | det |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 princess | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lovely | cc |
| 28 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 young | conj |
| 29 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 match | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a old man | a suitable match for a young princess nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | your Highness | still | young property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | your Highness not said here | 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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