The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 75
I have always treated you well, so please take me back to the river.”
What happens: treat, take back · To what, where: I, me, river
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 treated | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 treated | advmod |
| 4 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 treated | obj |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 treated | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 9 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 10 take | discourse |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 treated | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 treated | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | present · perfect · passive | I | you obj; always, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take back | infinitive | me | the river | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to river=Destination |
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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