The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 11
But he replied, “Do not be discouraged; I will soon return, and if it is possible will bring my mother and father and uncles with me.”
Who acts: Balna, determination · What happens: reply, not be, return, be, bring, uncle · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balna, determination), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 replied | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 discouraged | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 discouraged | punct |
| 6 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 discouraged | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 discouraged | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 discouraged | cop |
| 9 | discouraged | discouraged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 return | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 return | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 return | aux |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 return | advmod |
| 14 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bring | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bring | cc |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 possible | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 possible | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 possible | cop |
| 20 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bring | advcl |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 bring | aux |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bring | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 father | cc |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mother | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 uncles | cc |
| 28 | uncles | uncle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bring | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 uncles | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 bring | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Balna | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | discouraged property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | return in a quote | future | Balna | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | determination | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | future | my mother and father | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mother=Destination | |||||
| 6 | uncle in a quote | present | with Balna | tree rules |
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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