The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 39
“I have two strong arms, and this sabre, which shall be devoted to your Majesty’s service,” answered the Rajpoot.
Who acts: Rajpoot, Majesty · What happens: have, devote, answer, service · To what, where: two strong arms, sabre, service · 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 (Rajpoot, Majesty), 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 | _ | 23 answered | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 answered | parataxis |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 arms | nummod |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 arms | amod |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sabre | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sabre | cc |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 sabre | det |
| 10 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 devoted | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 devoted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 devoted | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 devoted | aux:pass |
| 15 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sabre | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 service | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 service | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Majesty | case |
| 20 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 devoted | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 23 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Rajpoot | det |
| 25 | Rajpoot | Rajpoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 answered | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the Rajpoot = rajpoot | two strong arms | this sabre parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | |||
| 2 | devote in a quote | shall · passive | this sabre | to your Majesty's service goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to service=Goal | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Rajpoot | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | service in a quote | your Majesty | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/2/39/