The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 15
“No, madam,” answered Zeyn, “I will henceforward live in such a manner as shall be pleasing to you.”
Who acts: madam · What happens: answer, live, please · To what, where: Zeyn, manner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (madam), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 madam | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 live | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | aux |
| 13 | henceforward | henceforward | ADV | _ | 14 live | advmod |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 manner | case |
| 16 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 manner | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 manner | det |
| 18 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 live | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 pleasing | mark |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 pleasing | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pleasing | aux |
| 22 | pleasing | please | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 live | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 pleasing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | madam | Zeyn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | future | madam | such manner | henceforward property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location | |||
| 3 | please in a quote | shall · progressive | madam not said here | Zeyn | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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