The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 65
His father purchased me and died without making me free; so that I am still a slave, and consequently all I have of right belongs to this young prince, his sole heir.”
Who acts: father, I, all · What happens: purchase, die, make, be, have, belong · To what, where: me, slave
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, I, all), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 purchased | nsubj |
| 3 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 purchased | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 died | cc |
| 6 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 purchased | conj |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 making | mark |
| 8 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 died | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 making | iobj |
| 10 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 making | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 slave | punct |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 slave | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 slave | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 slave | cop |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 slave | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 slave | det |
| 18 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 purchased | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 belongs | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 belongs | cc |
| 21 | consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 22 all | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 belongs | nsubj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 all | acl:relcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 right | case |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 all | nmod |
| 27 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 purchased | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 prince | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 prince | det |
| 30 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 prince | amod |
| 31 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 belongs | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 heir | punct |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 heir | nmod:poss |
| 34 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 heir | amod |
| 35 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 prince | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 belongs | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 belongs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | past | Mobarec's father | me | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Mobarec's father not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Mobarec's father not said here | me | free property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 4 | is a | present | I | a slave | still | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | belong | present | all of right | to this young prince and Mobarec's sole heir | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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