The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 6
“I know a very shrewd old woman, whom I will intrust with the affair, and she will acquit herself well.”
Who acts: Mobarec, woman · What happens: know, intrust, acquit · To what, where: shrewd old woman, woman
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 (Mobarec, woman), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 shrewd | advmod |
| 6 | shrewd | shrewd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 intrust | punct |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 intrust | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 intrust | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 intrust | aux |
| 13 | intrust | intrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 woman | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 affair | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 affair | det |
| 16 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 intrust | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 acquit | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 acquit | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 acquit | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 acquit | aux |
| 21 | acquit | acquit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | conj |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 acquit | obj |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 acquit | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Mobarec | a shrewd old woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | intrust in a quote | future | Mobarec | a shrewd old woman | with the affair | tree rules | |||
| 3 | acquit in a quote | future | woman | woman | well property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer herself=Source |
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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