The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 86
He is brave whose tongue is silent on the trophies of his sword; He is great whose quiet bearing marks his greatness well assured.
Who acts: Rajah, tongue, quiet bearing · What happens: be, mark, assure · To what, where: trophies, greatness
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 (Rajah, tongue, quiet bearing), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brave | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brave | cop |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 silent | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 silent | cop |
| 7 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brave | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 trophies | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trophies | det |
| 10 | trophies | trophy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 silent | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sword | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sword | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trophies | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 great | punct |
| 15 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 great | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 great | cop |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brave | conj |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 bearing | nmod:poss |
| 19 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bearing | amod |
| 20 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 marks | nsubj |
| 21 | marks | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 great | parataxis |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 greatness | nmod:poss |
| 23 | greatness | greatness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 marks | obj |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 assured | advmod |
| 25 | assured | assure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 marks | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rajah | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | tongue | the trophies of Rajah's sword | silent property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | Rajah | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mark | present | quiet bearing | Rajah's greatness | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent greatness=Destination | ||||
| 5 | assure | participle | quiet bearing not said here | well property | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
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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