The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 59

“Brother,” said he, “I came here thinking to find an impostor, but it makes me happy to see alive you whom we have so long mourned as dead.

Who acts: Brother, house · What happens: say, come, think, find, make, see · To what, where: impostor, Brother, you, we · 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 (Brother, house), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Brother	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Brother	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 came	advmod
12	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 came	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thinking	ccomp
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 impostor	det
16	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 makes	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 makes	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 makes	nsubj
20	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 makes	obj
22	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 makes	xcomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 makes	advcl
25	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 see	xcomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 see	obj
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 mourned	obj
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 mourned	nsubj:pass
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 mourned	aux
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 long	advmod
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 mourned	advmod
32	mourned	mourn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 see	ccomp
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 dead	case
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mourned	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Brother			brother nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come in a quote	past	Brother		here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	think speech: other in a quote	gerund	Brother not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	find in a quote	to-infinitive		a impostor			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impostor=Topic
5	make in a quote	present	house	Brother		happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product
6	see in a quote	to-infinitive	house not said here	you		alive property	tree rules
7	mourn in a quote	present · perfect · passive		we		as dead; whom obj; long property	tree rules

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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 59