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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 44

You seemed to me worthy of a better fate than to marry the Princess Nouronnihar; and that you might attain to it, I caused your arrow to fly out of sight, and to strike against the rocks near which you found it.

Who acts: You, I, arrow · What happens: seem, marry, attain, cause, fly out, strike · To what, where: Princess Nouronnihar, fate, arrow, sight, rocks

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. 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, arrow), 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

nsubjcasecompoundoblcasedetamodnmodmarkmarkacldetcompoundobjpunctccmarknsubjauxconjcaseoblpunctnsubjparataxisnmod:possobjmarkxcompcasecaseoblpunctccmarkconjcasedetoblcaseoblnsubjacl:relclobjpunctrootYouPRONseemedVERBtoADPmePRONworthyNOUNofADPaDETbetterADJfateNOUNthanSCONJtoPARTmarryVERBtheDETPrincessPROPNNouronniharPROPN;PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJyouPRONmightAUXattainVERBtoADPitPRON,PUNCTIPRONcausedVERByourPRONarrowNOUNtoPARTflyVERBoutADPofADPsightNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTstrikeVERBagainstADPtheDETrocksNOUNnearADPwhichPRONyouPRONfoundVERBitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs2 seemednsubj
2seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoADP_5 worthycase
4meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs5 worthycompound
5worthyworthyNOUNNumber=Sing2 seemedobl
6ofofADP_9 fatecase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 fatedet
8bettergoodADJDegree=Cmp9 fateamod
9fatefateNOUNNumber=Sing5 worthynmod
10thanthanSCONJ_12 marrymark
11totoPART_12 marrymark
12marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf9 fateacl
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 Nouronnihardet
14PrincessPrincessPROPNNumber=Sing15 Nouronniharcompound
15NouronniharNouronniharPROPNNumber=Sing12 marryobj
16;;PUNCT_21 attainpunct
17andandCCONJ_21 attaincc
18thatthatSCONJ_21 attainmark
19youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs21 attainnsubj
20mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin21 attainaux
21attainattainVERBVerbForm=Inf2 seemedconj
22totoADP_23 itcase
23ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 attainobl
24,,PUNCT_26 causedpunct
25IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs26 causednsubj
26causedcauseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 seemedparataxis
27youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 arrownmod:poss
28arrowarrowNOUNNumber=Sing26 causedobj
29totoPART_30 flymark
30flyflyVERBVerbForm=Inf26 causedxcomp
31outoutADP_33 sightcase
32ofofADP_33 sightcase
33sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing30 flyobl
34,,PUNCT_37 strikepunct
35andandCCONJ_37 strikecc
36totoPART_37 strikemark
37strikestrikeVERBVerbForm=Inf2 seemedconj
38againstagainstADP_40 rockscase
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 rocksdet
40rocksrockNOUNNumber=Plur37 strikeobl
41nearnearADP_42 whichcase
42whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel44 foundobl
43youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs44 foundnsubj
44foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin40 rocksacl:relcl
45ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs44 foundobj
46..PUNCT_2 seemedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seempastYouto me worthy of a better fatevn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2marryto-infinitiveYou not said herethe Princess Nouronniharvn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nouronnihar=Patient
3attainmightyoufatevn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4causepastIyour arrowtree rules
5fly outto-infinitiveyour arrow not said heresightvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sight=Theme
6striketo-infinitiveYou not said herethe rocksvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against rock=Location
7findpastyousightthe rocksvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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