The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 61
“My queen,” replied the prince, “I did not make the request with any intention of displeasing you, but from a motive of respect towards my father, who, as I have reason to presume, believes that I am dead.
Who acts: queen, intention, father · What happens: reply, not make, displease, have, presume, believe · To what, where: prince, request, you, reason, motive · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (queen, intention, father), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 queen | nmod:poss |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 make | advmod |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 replied | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 request | det |
| 16 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 intention | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 intention | det |
| 19 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 request | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 displeasing | mark |
| 21 | displeasing | displease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 intention | acl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 displeasing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 believes | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 43 believes | cc |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 motive | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 motive | det |
| 27 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 believes | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 respect | case |
| 29 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 motive | nmod |
| 30 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 32 father | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 father | nmod:poss |
| 32 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 respect | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 have | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 have | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 have | punct |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 have | mark |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 have | nsubj |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 father | conj |
| 39 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 have | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 presume | mark |
| 41 | presume | presume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 reason | acl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 motive | punct |
| 43 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 dead | mark |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 dead | nsubj |
| 46 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 dead | cop |
| 47 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 believes | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My queen | the prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make in a quote | past · do-support | My queen = queen | the request | with any intention | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Product | |||
| 3 | displease in a quote | gerund | any intention not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | my father | reason | I nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | |||
| 5 | presume in a quote | to-infinitive | my father not said here | reason not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | believe in a quote | present | a motive of respect towards my father | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | My queen = queen | dead property | 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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