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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 37

He said to the crier, “I am very sorry that I have entertained so wrong an opinion of you, but I hope to make amends by buying the tube, and I will give you the price you ask.”

Who acts: crier · What happens: say, be, entertain, hope, make, buy · To what, where: crier, opinion, amends, tube, price, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crier), 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

nsubjcasedetoblpunctpunctnsubjcopadvmodccompmarknsubjauxadvcladvmodxcompdetobjcasenmodpunctccnsubjparataxismarkxcompobjmarkadvcldetobjpunctccnsubjauxconjiobjdetobjnsubjacl:relclpunctpunctrootHePRONsaidVERBtoADPtheDETcrierNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONamAUXveryADVsorryADJthatSCONJIPRONhaveAUXentertainedVERBsoADVwrongADJanDETopinionNOUNofADPyouPRON,PUNCTbutCCONJIPRONhopeVERBtoPARTmakeVERBamendsNOUNbySCONJbuyingVERBtheDETtubeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJIPRONwillAUXgiveVERByouPRONtheDETpriceNOUNyouPRONaskVERB.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 saidnsubj
2saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoADP_5 criercase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 crierdet
5criercrierNOUNNumber=Sing2 saidobl
6,,PUNCT_11 sorrypunct
7“"PUNCT_11 sorrypunct
8IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs11 sorrynsubj
9ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 sorrycop
10veryveryADV_11 sorryadvmod
11sorrysorryADJDegree=Pos2 saidccomp
12thatthatSCONJ_15 entertainedmark
13IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs15 entertainednsubj
14havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 entertainedaux
15entertainedentertainVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part11 sorryadvcl
16sosoADV_17 wrongadvmod
17wrongwrongADJDegree=Pos15 entertainedxcomp
18anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 opiniondet
19opinionopinionNOUNNumber=Sing15 entertainedobj
20ofofADP_21 youcase
21youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs19 opinionnmod
22,,PUNCT_25 hopepunct
23butbutCCONJ_25 hopecc
24IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 hopensubj
25hopehopeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 saidparataxis
26totoPART_27 makemark
27makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf25 hopexcomp
28amendsamendNOUNNumber=Plur27 makeobj
29bybySCONJ_30 buyingmark
30buyingbuyVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part27 makeadvcl
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 tubedet
32tubetubeNOUNNumber=Sing30 buyingobj
33,,PUNCT_37 givepunct
34andandCCONJ_37 givecc
35IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs37 givensubj
36willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin37 giveaux
37givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf25 hopeconj
38youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs37 giveiobj
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 pricedet
40pricepriceNOUNNumber=Sing37 giveobj
41youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs42 asknsubj
42askaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin40 priceacl:relcl
43..PUNCT_2 saidpunct
44”"PUNCT_2 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastcrierthe criervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to crier=Recipient clause=Topic
2is in a quotepresentcriersorry propertytree rules
3entertain in a quotepresent · perfectcriera opinion of youwrong propertyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus opinion=Experiencer
4hope in a quotepresentcriervn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5make not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivecrier not said hereamendsvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amend=Product
6buy in a quotegerundcrier not said herethe tubevn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tube=Theme
7give in a quotefuturecrierthe pricethe crier = criervn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient price=Theme
8ask speech: ask in a quotepresentthe crier = crierthe price not said herevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent price=Recipient
9opine in a quoteyounom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=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.

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