The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 77
Mother am I, though I weep, So hold this word sure,— Go, reign king of all men, but keep Thy heart good and pure!”
Who acts: Mother · What happens: be, weep, hold, go, reign, keep · To what, where: I, word, king, heart
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 (Mother), 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weep | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 I | cop |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Mother | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 weep | punct |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 weep | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 weep | nsubj |
| 7 | weep | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
| 9 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 hold | advmod |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 weep | conj |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 word | det |
| 12 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | obj |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hold | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Go | punct |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Go | punct |
| 16 | Go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hold | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reign | punct |
| 18 | reign | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hold | conj |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reign | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 men | det |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 king | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 keep | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 keep | cc |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 weep | parataxis |
| 26 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 heart | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 keep | obj |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 keep | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pure | cc |
| 30 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 good | conj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 keep | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 weep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Mother not said here | I | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weep | present | Mother | I nsubj | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hold | infinitive | Mother not said here | this word | sure property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | infinitive | Mother not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | reign | infinitive | Mother not said here | king of all men | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | keep | infinitive | Thy heart | good property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
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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