The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 123

I had begun to perform my promise to him, for it was I whom you saw in a dream in the shape of an old man.

Who acts: I, promise, you, my · What happens: begin, perform, be, see, promise · To what, where: promise, father, dream

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, promise, you, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 begun	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 begun	aux
3	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 perform	mark
5	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 begun	xcomp
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 promise	nmod:poss
7	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perform	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 perform	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 whom	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 whom	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 whom	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 whom	cop
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 whom	nsubj
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 begun	obl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 whom	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 dream	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dream	det
20	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 shape	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shape	det
23	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shape	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect	I					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	perform	to-infinitive	I not said here	my promise	father			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
3	is	past	promise				I nsubj	tree rules
4	see	past	you			a dream	in the shape of a old man	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	promise		my					nom promise «communication 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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 123

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 123