The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 27
Such confidence and lack of fear quite moved the Rajah, who resolved to take his little feathered friend home with him.
Who acts: Such confidence, Rajah · What happens: move, resolve, take, lack · To what, where: Rajah, little feathered friend, fear
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 (Such confidence, Rajah), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 confidence | amod |
| 2 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lack | cc |
| 4 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 confidence | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fear | case |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lack | nmod |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 moved | advmod |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rajah | det |
| 10 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 resolved | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 resolved | nsubj |
| 13 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Rajah | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 resolved | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 friend | amod |
| 18 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 friend | amod |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 take | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | Such confidence and lack of fear | the Rajah | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme rajah=Result | ||||
| 2 | resolve | past | the Rajah | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | the Rajah not said here | luncheon's little feathered friend | with luncheon; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument friend=Destination | |||
| 4 | lack | fear | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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