The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 101
Then this girl was brought before him, and he said that to her alone must he owe his life.
Who acts: friend · What happens: bring, say, owe · To what, where: girl, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 brought | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 owe | mark |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 owe | obl |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 her | advmod |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 owe | aux |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 owe | nsubj |
| 18 | owe | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 owe | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | this girl | before friend; then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | owe | must | friend | friend's life | girl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent life=Theme to she=Goal |
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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