The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 82
The Empress Janqwi has appointed me to lead our warriors into battle; your place is with the reserves.”
Who acts: Empress Janqwi, place · What happens: appoint, lead, be · To what, where: me, warriors, battle
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 (Empress Janqwi, place), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Janqwi | det |
| 2 | Empress | Empress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Janqwi | compound |
| 3 | Janqwi | Janqwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appointed | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 appointed | aux |
| 5 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 appointed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 lead | mark |
| 8 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 appointed | advcl |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 10 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lead | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 battle | case |
| 12 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lead | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 reserves | punct |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 place | nmod:poss |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reserves | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 reserves | cop |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 reserves | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reserves | det |
| 19 | reserves | reserve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appointed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appointed | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | present · perfect | the Empress Janqwi | me | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | to-infinitive | the Empress Janqwi not said here | our warriors | battle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme into battle=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | present | your place | with the reserves | 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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