The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 83
That is why my mother is sending you,” sighed Yun-Ying.
Who acts: That, mother · What happens: be, send, sigh · To what, where: you, Yun Ying
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, mother), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 why | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 why | cop |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 sending | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sending | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sending | aux |
| 7 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sighed | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 sending | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sending | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sending | punct |
| 11 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ying | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yun | punct |
| 14 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sighed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | present · progressive | my mother | you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sigh in a quote | past | Yun Ying | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ying=Topic |
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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