The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 81
“Your affection finds favor in my sight, and is pleasing to me, Son,” said the Goddess.
Who acts: affection, Goddess, my · What happens: find, please, say, sight · To what, where: favor, sight, Son, Goddess · 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 (affection, Goddess, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 finds | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 affection | nmod:poss |
| 3 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | nsubj |
| 4 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sight | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pleasing | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pleasing | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pleasing | aux |
| 12 | pleasing | please | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 pleasing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Son | punct |
| 16 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pleasing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Son | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pleasing | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finds | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Goddess | det |
| 21 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present | Your affection | favor | my sight | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent favor=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | please in a quote | present · progressive | Son | the Goddess = goddess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus son=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Goddess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sight in a quote | my | nom sight «cognition 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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