The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 106
Then said he: “I will go to my friend of Bagdad, from whom I am sure to receive aid.”
Who acts: friend · What happens: say, go, be, receive · To what, where: aid · 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Bagdad | case |
| 13 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 friend | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 whom | case |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 sure | obl |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sure | cop |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 receive | mark |
| 21 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sure | xcomp |
| 22 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 receive | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | friend | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | friend | to my friend of Bagdad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to friend=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | friend | whom obl; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | receive in a quote | to-infinitive | friend not said here | aid | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=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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