The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 126
It is fortunate that I told none but my mother the motive of my journey.
Who acts: Return, I, my · What happens: be, tell, journey · To what, where: none · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Return, I, my), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fortunate | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fortunate | cop |
| 3 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 told | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 told | nsubj |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fortunate | advcl |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 told | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 mother | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 none | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 motive | det |
| 12 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 journey | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 journey | nmod:poss |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 motive | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Return | fortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | I | none my mother | the motive of my journey obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent none=Recipient motive=Topic | |||
| 3 | journey | my | 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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