The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 35
“Your Highness, I am Vira-vara, a Rajpoot, who seeks employment.”
Who acts: King, Highness · What happens: be, seek · To what, where: Vira vara, employment
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 (King, Highness), 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 | _ | 15 seeks | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeks | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Highness | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 vara | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 vara | cop |
| 7 | Vira | Vira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 vara | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 vara | punct |
| 9 | vara | vara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Highness | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rajpoot | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Rajpoot | det |
| 12 | Rajpoot | Rajpoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Highness | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeks | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seeks | nsubj |
| 15 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | employment | employment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeks | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeks | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | King | Vira vara | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek in a quote | present | Your Highness and Vira vara and a Rajpoot | employment | who nsubj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employment=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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