The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 51
The master did not blame the boy for killing the pig, and declared that he wished to make a brother of him.
Who acts: master, boy · What happens: not blame, kill, declare, wish, make · To what, where: boy, pig, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blame | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blame | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 blame | advmod |
| 5 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blame | obj |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 killing | mark |
| 9 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 boy | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pig | det |
| 11 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 declared | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 declared | cc |
| 14 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blame | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 wished | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wished | nsubj |
| 17 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 declared | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wished | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 brother | det |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blame | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not blame | past · do-support | the master | the boy | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | gerund | the boy not said here | the pig | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme | ||||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | wish | past | master | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | master not said here | a brother of master | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset brother=Product |
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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