The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 67
This scoundrel Chang has tortured me.
What happens: torture · To what, where: scoundrel
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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 scoundrel | det |
| 2 | scoundrel | scoundrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tortured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 scoundrel | appos |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tortured | aux |
| 5 | tortured | torture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tortured | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tortured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | torture | present · perfect · passive | this scoundrel | me obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer i=Result |
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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