The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 25
The damsel I have married is so charming that I am tempted to carry her to Bussorah and place her on the throne.”
Who acts: damsel · What happens: marry, charm, tempt, carry · To what, where: I, damsel, Bussorah, throne
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 damsel | det |
| 2 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 charming | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | aux |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 damsel | acl:relcl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 charming | aux |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 charming | advmod |
| 8 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 tempted | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tempted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tempted | aux:pass |
| 12 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 charming | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tempted | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Bussorah | case |
| 17 | Bussorah | Bussorah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 place | cc |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Bussorah | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 throne | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 throne | det |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 charming | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 charming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | present · perfect · passive | the damsel not said here | I | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | charm | present · progressive | the damsel | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tempt | present · passive | I | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | damsel | Bussorah and place | the throne | damsel obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bussorah=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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