The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 75
However, Perie Banou saved her the trouble, and said, “Good woman, I am glad I had an opportunity to oblige you, and that you are able to pursue your journey.
Who acts: Perie, you, your · What happens: save, say, be, have, oblige, pursue · To what, where: trouble, sorceress, Good woman, opportunity, you, journey · 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 (Perie, you, your), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 saved | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saved | nsubj |
| 4 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Perie | flat |
| 5 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saved | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trouble | det |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saved | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saved | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 woman | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 woman | punct |
| 14 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 glad | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 glad | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 glad | cop |
| 19 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | parataxis |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 glad | ccomp |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 opportunity | det |
| 23 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 oblige | mark |
| 25 | oblige | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 opportunity | acl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 oblige | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 able | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 able | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 able | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 able | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 able | cop |
| 32 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 glad | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 pursue | mark |
| 34 | pursue | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 able | xcomp |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 journey | nmod:poss |
| 36 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pursue | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | Perie | the trouble | sorceress | however property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary trouble=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Perie not said here | Good woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Perie | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | Perie | a opportunity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient | ||||
| 5 | oblige in a quote | to-infinitive | Perie not said here | you | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | pursue in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | your journey | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 8 | journey in a quote | your | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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