The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 17
“Son,” answered the Sultan of the Indies, “I wish to penetrate no further into your secrets.
Who acts: Son · What happens: answer, wish, penetrate · To what, where: Sultan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Son), 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 | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 2 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sultan | det |
| 7 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Indies | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Indies | det |
| 10 | Indies | Indy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Sultan | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wish | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 wish | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 penetrate | mark |
| 16 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wish | xcomp |
| 17 | no | no | ADV | _ | 18 further | advmod |
| 18 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 penetrate | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 secrets | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 secrets | nmod:poss |
| 21 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 further | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Son | the Sultan of the Indies | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sultan=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | Son | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | penetrate not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Son not said here | far property | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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