The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 59

Said one, “I do not see how Bantugan can marry the Sultan’s daughter because the first gift must be a figure of a man or woman in pure gold.”

Who acts: one, I, Bantugan, first gift · What happens: say, not see, marry, be · To what, where: daughter, figure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I, Bantugan, first gift), 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	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 see	advmod
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Said	ccomp
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 marry	advmod
10	Bantugan	Bantugan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 marry	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 marry	aux
12	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 see	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sultan	det
14	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Sultan	case
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marry	obj
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 figure	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gift	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 gift	amod
20	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 figure	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 figure	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 figure	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 figure	det
24	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marry	advcl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 figure	nmod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 woman	cc
29	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 gold	case
31	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gold	amod
32	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	one			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not see in a quote	present · do-support	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	marry in a quote	can	Bantugan	the Sultan's daughter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
4	is a in a quote	must	the first gift	a figure	of a man in pure gold or woman	tree rules

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 59

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 59