The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 22
“As you have declared the truth and thereby saved the lives of two innocent men, I pardon you.
Who acts: you, judge · What happens: declare, save, pardon · To what, where: truth, lives, you
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, judge), 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 | _ | 19 pardon | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 declared | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 declared | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 declared | aux |
| 5 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 pardon | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 truth | det |
| 7 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 declared | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saved | cc |
| 9 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 10 saved | advmod |
| 10 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 declared | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lives | det |
| 12 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saved | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 men | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 men | nummod |
| 15 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 men | amod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lives | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 declared | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pardon | nsubj |
| 19 | pardon | pardon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 pardon | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | declare speech: other in a quote | present · perfect | you | the truth | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | save in a quote | past | you not said here | the lives of two innocent men | thereby property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||
| 3 | pardon in a quote | present | judge | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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