The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 62
To this the Mother agreed, saying, “It is well, and worthy of our blood; how else should we deserve the King’s pay?”
Who acts: Mother, vara, we, King · What happens: agree, say, be, deserve, pay · To what, where: worthy, pay · 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 (Mother, vara, we, King), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 agreed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mother | det |
| 4 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreed | nsubj |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 agreed | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 is | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 is | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 worthy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 worthy | cc |
| 15 | worthy | worthy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 agreed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 blood | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 blood | nmod:poss |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 worthy | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 deserve | punct |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 deserve | advmod |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 20 how | advmod |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 deserve | aux |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 deserve | nsubj |
| 24 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 agreed | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 pay | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 King | case |
| 28 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deserve | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 deserve | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 deserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Mother | worthy of our blood | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Mother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | vara | well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | deserve in a quote | should | we | the King's pay | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pay in a quote | the King | nom pay «possession 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.
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