The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 115
He then told Oku that it was he who had saved the two young generals from drowning, and Oku thanked him for coming to their rescue.
Who acts: king, Oku, generals · What happens: tell, save, thank, come, rescue · To what, where: Oku, strength, king, rescue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Oku, generals), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 saved | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saved | aux:pass |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saved | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saved | aux |
| 11 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 generals | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 generals | nummod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 generals | amod |
| 15 | generals | general | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saved | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 drowning | case |
| 17 | drowning | drowning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 generals | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thanked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 thanked | cc |
| 20 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 thanked | nsubj |
| 21 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thanked | obj |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 coming | mark |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 thanked | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 rescue | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 rescue | nmod:poss |
| 27 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 coming | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | king | Oku | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent oku=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | save | past · perfect · passive | strength | king nsubj; who nsubj:pass; the two young generals obj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary general=Theme | ||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | Oku | king | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | Oku not said here | generals's rescue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | rescue | generals = general | nom rescue «act 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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