The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 80
Have pity on me, and let my death restore these faithful ones to life; I must follow in their path.”
Who acts: death, I, my · What happens: have, let, restore, follow, die · To what, where: pity, death, faithful ones, life, path
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 (death, I, my), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Have | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Have | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | parataxis |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obj |
| 10 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 ones | det |
| 12 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 restore | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restore | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 follow | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 follow | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 follow | aux |
| 19 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 path | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 path | nmod:poss |
| 22 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 follow | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | pity | on me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | my death | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | restore | infinitive | my death not said here | this faithful ones | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to life=Recipient | |||
| 4 | follow | must | I | remains's path | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in path=Location | ||||
| 5 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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