The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 95
Finally some wanted to return to their homes and Bantugan said: “No, let us seek my son.
Who acts: some, Bantugan, us · What happens: want, return, say, let, seek · To what, where: us, son · 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 (some, Bantugan, us), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 3 wanted | advmod |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 return | mark |
| 5 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 homes | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 homes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 return | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 14 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 let | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 No | punct |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | some | finally property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | some not said here | to balls's homes result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Bantugan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | seek in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | my son | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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