The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 8
“Fair maiden, I come from afar, Sworn conqueror in love and in war!
Who acts: smiling · What happens: come, swear · To what, where: Fair maiden, afar
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 (smiling), 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 maiden | punct |
| 2 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 afar | case |
| 8 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 conqueror | punct |
| 10 | Sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 conqueror | amod |
| 11 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maiden | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 love | case |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conqueror | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 war | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 love | conj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | smiling | Fair maiden and Sworn conqueror in love and war not said here | afar | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maiden=Theme | |||
| 2 | swear in a quote | participle | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=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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