The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 121

I obliged your father, some days before he died, to write that which you read on the piece of white satin.

Who acts: I, father, you · What happens: oblige, die, write, read · To what, where: father, that, piece

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father, you), 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	2 obliged	nsubj
2	obliged	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obliged	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 days	punct
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 days	det
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 father	conj
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 died	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 obliged	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 write	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 write	mark
13	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 died	advcl
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 write	obj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 read	obj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 read	nsubj
17	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 write	ccomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 piece	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 piece	det
20	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 read	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 satin	case
22	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 satin	amod
23	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piece	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	oblige	past	I	your father and some days			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
2	die	past	father				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	write	to-infinitive	father not said here	that			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent that=Recipient clause=Topic
4	read	present	you		the piece of white satin	which obj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 121

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 121