The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 60
“I shall be very glad,” replied Zeyn, “to be admitted to your feast.”
Who acts: Zeyn · What happens: be, reply, admit · To what, where: feast · 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 (Zeyn), 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 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 glad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 glad | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 glad | advmod |
| 6 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 replied | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 glad | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 admitted | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 admitted | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 admitted | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 admitted | aux:pass |
| 15 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Zeyn | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 feast | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feast | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 admitted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Zeyn | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | shall | Zeyn | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Zeyn | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | admit speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | Zeyn not said here | your feast | vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: to feast=Recipient |
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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