The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 83
To this Oku replied: “It is my right to lead the first army, and yours to follow.”
Who acts: Oku, place · What happens: reply, be, lead, follow · To what, where: right, first army · 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 (Oku, 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 | To | to | SCONJ | _ | 4 replied | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Oku | det |
| 3 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 right | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 right | nmod:poss |
| 10 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 lead | mark |
| 12 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 right | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 army | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 army | amod |
| 15 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lead | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yours | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 yours | cc |
| 18 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 right | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 follow | mark |
| 20 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 right | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | this Oku | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | place | my right | my nmod:poss; yours conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lead in a quote | to-infinitive | this Oku not said here | the first army | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow in a quote | to-infinitive | this Oku not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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