The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 21

“I need no more reward than the sight of the tears which came to your eyes when I first sang to you,” said the Nightingale.

Who acts: Nightingale, tears · What happens: need, come, sing, say, sight · To what, where: more reward, eyes, you, tears · 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 (Nightingale, tears), 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	_	3 need	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 reward	det
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 reward	amod
6	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 sight	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sight	det
9	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reward	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 tears	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tears	det
12	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sight	nmod
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tears	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 eyes	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obl
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 sang	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sang	nsubj
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 sang	advmod
21	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 sang	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Nightingale	det
28	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present	the Nightingale = nightingale	no more reward			than the sight of the tears	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reward=Theme
2	come in a quote	past	the tears			your eyes		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to eye=Initial_Location
3	sing speech: express in a quote	past	the Nightingale = nightingale		you		first property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	the Nightingale					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sight in a quote			the tears				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 21