The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 99
“There is a woman of your household upon whom my heart has fixed itself,” returned his comrade, “and unless I may marry her, I shall die.”
Who acts: woman, friend · What happens: be, fix, return, marry, die · To what, where: heart, comrade, woman · 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 (woman, friend), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 returned | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 household | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 household | nmod:poss |
| 8 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 woman | nmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 household | nmod |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fixed | aux |
| 14 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 whom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 fixed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 20 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 returned | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 die | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 die | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 die | cc |
| 24 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 27 marry | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 marry | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 marry | aux |
| 27 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 die | advcl |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 marry | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 marry | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 die | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 die | aux |
| 32 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 comrade | appos |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a woman of your household upon a woman of your household upon a woman | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fix in a quote | present · perfect · passive | my heart | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary itself=Product | |||||
| 3 | return | past | friend's comrade | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | marry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | may | My friend = friend | woman | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 5 | die in a quote | shall | My friend = friend | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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