The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 102
“My friend,” said the other, “I brought up this girl with the intention of making her my wife, and through her I shall obtain much wealth.
Who acts: friend, intention · What happens: say, bring up, make, obtain · To what, where: other, girl, wife, much wealth · 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, intention), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 other | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 brought | compound:prt |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 intention | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 intention | det |
| 18 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 making | mark |
| 20 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 intention | acl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 making | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 obtain | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 obtain | cc |
| 26 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 30 obtain | mark |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 obtain | nmod:poss |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 obtain | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 obtain | aux |
| 30 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 31 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wealth | amod |
| 32 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 obtain | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My friend | the other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent other=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bring up in a quote | past | My friend = friend | this girl | with the intention | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent girl=Patient with intention=Instrument | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | gerund | the intention not said here | girl's wife | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wife=Product | ||||
| 4 | obtain in a quote | shall | My friend = friend | much wealth | girl nmod:poss | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=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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