The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 53
He added, “But, my princess, I only tell you this as a plain account of what passed between me and my father.
Who acts: Ahmed · What happens: add, tell, pass · To what, where: princess, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ahmed), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 added | nsubj |
| 2 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 princess | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 princess | punct |
| 5 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 princess | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 But | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 princess | nmod:poss |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 added | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 tell | advmod |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 added | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 account | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 account | det |
| 17 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 account | amod |
| 18 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 account | nmod |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 passed | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 father | cc |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 me | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | Ahmed | my princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Ahmed | you | as a plain account | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | pass in a quote | past | between Ahmed | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between i=Location |
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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