The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 36
“You told me the truth,” said he, “when you assured me my son Ahmed was alive.
Who acts: You, Ahmed, son · What happens: tell, say, assure, be · To what, where: truth, Ahmed · 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 (You, Ahmed, 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 | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 truth | det |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 assured | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 assured | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 assured | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 assured | nsubj |
| 15 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 assured | iobj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 alive | nsubj |
| 19 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | appos |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 alive | cop |
| 21 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 assured | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | You | the truth | Ahmed | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient truth=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ahmed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | assure in a quote | past | you | Ahmed | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | my son | alive 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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