The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 67
“Mobarec,” said he, “I declare, before all these guests, that I make you free from this moment, and that I renounce all right to your person and all you possess.
Who acts: Mobarec, you · What happens: say, declare, make, be, possess · To what, where: guests · 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 (Mobarec, you), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mobarec | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mobarec | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 declare | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 declare | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 declare | nsubj |
| 10 | declare | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 guests | punct |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 guests | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 guests | det:predet |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 guests | det |
| 15 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 declare | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 make | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 guests | acl:relcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 make | xcomp |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 moment | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 free | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 right | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 right | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 right | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 right | nsubj |
| 29 | renounce | renounce | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 right | cop |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 31 right | advmod |
| 31 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 declare | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 person | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 person | nmod:poss |
| 34 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 right | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 all | cc |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 person | nmod |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 possess | nsubj |
| 38 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 all | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mobarec | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | declare speech: other in a quote | present | Mobarec | before all guests | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | Mobarec | all guests | you obj; free property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset that=Beneficiary you=Product | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Mobarec | to your person all; all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | possess in a quote | present | you | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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