The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 68
“My uncles will give all save the statue of gold, and that I shall give myself.
Who acts: uncles, Balatama · What happens: give, save · To what, where: statue, Balatama · 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 (uncles, Balatama), 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 uncles | nmod:poss |
| 3 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 save | advmod |
| 7 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | csubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 statue | det |
| 9 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 save | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 statue | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 give | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 18 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | My uncles | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | save in a quote | present | the statue of gold | all property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | shall | Balatama | Balatama | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=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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