The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 57
“Madam,” answered Zeyn, “Heaven is my witness that I more than once had nearly broken my word with the Sultan of the Genii by keeping you myself.
Who acts: Madam, Heaven, that, my · What happens: answer, be, break, keep, word · To what, where: Zeyn, witness, word · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Madam, Heaven, that, my), 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 | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 witness | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 witness | punct |
| 9 | Heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 witness | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 witness | cop |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 witness | nmod:poss |
| 12 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Zeyn | appos |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 more | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 more | nsubj |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 witness | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 more | fixed |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 broken | advmod |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 broken | aux |
| 19 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 20 broken | advmod |
| 20 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 witness | parataxis |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 word | nmod:poss |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 broken | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 Sultan | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sultan | det |
| 25 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 word | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Genii | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Genii | det |
| 28 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sultan | nmod |
| 29 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 keeping | mark |
| 30 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 broken | advcl |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 keeping | obj |
| 32 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 30 keeping | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Madam | Zeyn | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent zeyn=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Heaven | my witness | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be in a quote | that | I nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | break in a quote | past · perfect | my word | with the Sultan of the Genii; nearly, once property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent word=Patient with sultan=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | gerund | Zeyn | myself obl:unmarked | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | word in a quote | my | with the Sultan of the Genii | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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