The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 61

These two listened attentively while he repeated to them the words of the vision and then the son said: “I feel honored in that I may be the means of saving the King’s life; kill me quickly, for it is well that I can give my life to such a good cause.”

Who acts: two, guard, son, vara · What happens: listen, repeat, say, feel, honor, be · To what, where: words, wife, that, life, son, good cause · 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 (two, guard, son, vara), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 listened	nsubj
3	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	attentively	attentively	ADV	_	3 listened	advmod
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 repeated	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 repeated	nsubj
7	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 repeated	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 repeated	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 vision	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vision	det
14	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 words	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 said	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 son	det
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listened	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 kill	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 feel	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 feel	nsubj
23	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 kill	advcl
24	honored	honor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 feel	xcomp
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 that	case
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 honored	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 means	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 means	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 means	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 means	nsubj
31	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 feel	parataxis
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 saving	mark
33	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 means	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 King	det
35	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 life	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 King	case
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 saving	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 kill	punct
39	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 kill	obj
41	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	39 kill	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 give	punct
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 well	case
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 well	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 well	cop
46	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 give	obl
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 give	mark
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 give	nsubj
49	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 give	aux
50	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 kill	conj
51	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 life	nmod:poss
52	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 give	obj
53	to	to	ADP	_	57 cause	case
54	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	57 cause	det:predet
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 cause	det
56	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 cause	amod
57	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 give	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 kill	punct
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	this two					attentively property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	repeat	past	guard	the words of the vision	wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to they=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the son				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	feel in a quote	present	the son = son						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	honor in a quote	participle	the son = son not said here			that			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	may	the son = son					mean property	tree rules
7	save in a quote	gerund	the son = son not said here	the King's life					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
8	kill in a quote	infinitive		the son = son				quickly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
9	is in a quote	present	vara					well property	tree rules
10	give in a quote	can	the son = son	my life	such good cause				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent life=Theme to cause=Recipient
11	word			the vision					nom word «communication 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 61