The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 58
“Tell me what it is, and I swear to do it, out of loyalty to my kind Master,” said the faithful guard.
Who acts: Spirit, I, faithful guard · What happens: tell, be, swear, do, say · To what, where: me, Spirit, loyalty · 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 (Spirit, I, faithful guard), 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 | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 what | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swear | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 swear | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 swear | nsubj |
| 10 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Tell | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 swear | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 loyalty | punct |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 loyalty | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 loyalty | case |
| 17 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Master | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Master | nmod:poss |
| 20 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Master | compound |
| 21 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loyalty | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 guard | det |
| 26 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 guard | amod |
| 27 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Spirit | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swear in a quote | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | Spirit | loyalty to my kind Master | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the faithful guard | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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