The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 42
The maiden you have brought me is beautiful and good, and I am pleased with the restraint you have put on yourself to fulfill your promise to me.
Who acts: you, maiden, I, your · What happens: bring, be, put, fulfill, promise · To what, where: maiden, me, restraint, promise
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 (you, maiden, I, your), 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 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 beautiful | cop |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 good | cc |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beautiful | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleased | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pleased | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 pleased | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pleased | cop |
| 15 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beautiful | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 restraint | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 restraint | det |
| 18 | restraint | restraint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pleased | obl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | aux |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 restraint | acl:relcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 yourself | case |
| 23 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 put | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 fulfill | mark |
| 25 | fulfill | fulfill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 put | advcl |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 promise | nmod:poss |
| 27 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fulfill | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 fulfill | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect | you | the maiden not said here | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | present | the maiden | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the maiden not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | I | with the restraint; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put | present · perfect | you | the restraint not said here | on yourself | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent restraint=Theme on yourself=Destination | |||
| 6 | fulfill | to-infinitive | you not said here | your promise | me | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | promise | your | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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