The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 45
“That sovereign,” said Mobarec, “was formerly my master; but I never knew he had any children.
Who acts: sovereign, Mobarec · What happens: say, be, not know, have · To what, where: master, children · 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 (sovereign, Mobarec), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sovereign | det |
| 3 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sovereign | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sovereign | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 master | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 master | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 master | cop |
| 11 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 13 master | advmod |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Mobarec | appos |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 knew | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 knew | advmod |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 knew | ccomp |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 children | det |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | that sovereign | Mobarec nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | my master | my nmod:poss; formerly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | past | that sovereign = sovereign | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | Mobarec | any children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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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