The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 15

He answered, “I am a Rajah’s son, and I am in search of my father and mother and my uncles, whom a wicked enchanter bewitched.”

Who acts: Balna, wicked enchanter · What happens: answer, be, bewitch · To what, where: son, search, father · 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, wicked enchanter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 son	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 son	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 son	det
8	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Rajah	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answered	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 search	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 search	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 search	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 search	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 search	case
16	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answered	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 search	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 mother	cc
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 uncles	cc
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 uncles	nmod:poss
24	uncles	uncle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 father	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bewitched	punct
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 bewitched	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 enchanter	det
28	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 enchanter	amod
29	enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bewitched	nsubj
30	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 father	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 father	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 search	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Balna				tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	Balna	Rajah's son		Rajah nmod:poss	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	Balna		search	of my father and mother and my uncles	tree rules
4	bewitch in a quote	past	a wicked enchanter	my father and mother and my uncles			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus whom=Experiencer

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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The tree

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 15