The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 22
Page 197, ‘asuring’ changed to ‘assuring,’ “assuring him of his submission”
Who acts: page · What happens: asur, change, assure, submit · To what, where: page
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (page), 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asuring | compound |
| 2 | 197 | 197 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 asuring | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 asuring | punct |
| 5 | asuring | asur | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 asuring | punct |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 asuring | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 assuring | case |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 assuring | punct |
| 10 | assuring | assuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 assuring | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 assuring | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 assuring | punct |
| 14 | assuring | assure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 asuring | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 assuring | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 submission | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 submission | nmod:poss |
| 18 | submission | submission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assuring | obl |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 assuring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | asur | gerund | Page compound | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | participle | to assuring result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to assuring=Result | |||||
| 3 | assure in a quote | gerund | page | of page's submission | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of submission=Topic | ||||
| 4 | submit in a quote | page | nom submission «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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