The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 52
Pei-Hang offered him three diamonds, each as large as a sparrow’s egg, if he would go away and forget that he ever knew Yun-Ying.
Who acts: Pei, Hang · What happens: offer, go away, forget, know · To what, where: three diamonds, Hang, Yun Ying · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei, Hang), 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 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pei | punct |
| 3 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pei | flat |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 offered | iobj |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 diamonds | nummod |
| 7 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 offered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 large | punct |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 large | nsubj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 large | advmod |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 offered | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 egg | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sparrow | det |
| 14 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 egg | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 sparrow | case |
| 16 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 large | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 large | parataxis |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 forget | cc |
| 24 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 knew | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 knew | nsubj |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 28 knew | advmod |
| 28 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 forget | ccomp |
| 29 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Ying | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Yun | punct |
| 31 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 knew | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | Pei | three diamonds | Hang | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal diamond=Theme | |||
| 2 | go away a condition, not said to happen | would | Hang | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | forget | infinitive | Hang not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | past | Hang | Yun Ying | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ying=Stimulus |
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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