The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 13
“It was courageous on your part to risk your life for your friend, and I wish to show how highly I esteem such valor.
Who acts: match, comrade · What happens: be, risk, wish, show, esteem · To what, where: part, life, such valor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (match, comrade), 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 courageous | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 courageous | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 courageous | cop |
| 4 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 part | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 part | nmod:poss |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 courageous | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 risk | mark |
| 9 | risk | risk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 part | acl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 risk | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 friend | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 risk | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wish | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wish | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 courageous | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 show | mark |
| 20 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wish | xcomp |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 highly | advmod |
| 22 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 24 esteem | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 esteem | nsubj |
| 24 | esteem | esteem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 show | ccomp |
| 25 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 valor | amod |
| 26 | valor | valor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 esteem | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 courageous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | match | your part | courageous property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | risk in a quote | to-infinitive | match not said here | your life | for your friend | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Pivot | |||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | comrade | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | show not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | comrade not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | esteem in a quote | present | comrade | such valor | highly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer valor=Stimulus |
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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