The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 13
“Fair sisters!” quoth Rasalu gayly, “give me my task and I will perform it.”
Who acts: Fair sisters, other nine maidens, my · What happens: quoth, give, perform, task · To what, where: Rasalu, task, other nine maidens
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fair sisters, other nine maidens, 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 | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 2 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sisters | amod |
| 3 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 quoth | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sisters | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sisters | punct |
| 6 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 quoth | obj |
| 8 | gayly | gayly | ADV | _ | 6 quoth | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 quoth | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 task | nmod:poss |
| 14 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 perform | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 perform | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 perform | aux |
| 18 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 quoth | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 perform | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | infinitive | Fair sisters | Rasalu | gayly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | Fair sisters not said here | my task | the other nine maidens = maiden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient task=Theme | |||
| 3 | perform in a quote | future | the other nine maidens = maiden | task | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | task in a quote | my | nom task «act 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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