The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 55
As soon as he had spoken these words, Mobarec fell down at his feet, and kissing one of his hands several times, said: “I bless God for having brought you hither.
Who acts: father, Mobarec, I · What happens: speak, fall down, kiss, say, bless, bring · To what, where: words, feet, one, God, you · 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 (father, Mobarec, I), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 fell | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 spoken | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spoken | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoken | aux |
| 6 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 fell | advcl |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spoken | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoken | punct |
| 10 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | advcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 fell | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kissing | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kissing | cc |
| 18 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fell | advcl |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 kissing | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 hands | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 times | amod |
| 24 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 bless | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 bless | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 bless | nsubj |
| 30 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 said | ccomp |
| 31 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 bless | obj |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 brought | mark |
| 33 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 brought | aux |
| 34 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 bless | advcl |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 brought | obj |
| 36 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 34 brought | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | father | this words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past | Mobarec | father's feet | down, soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at foot=Location | |||
| 3 | kiss | gerund | Mobarec not said here | one of father's hands several times | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | bless in a quote | present | I | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring in a quote | gerund · perfect | I not said here | you | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=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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