The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 19
The young Prince said to himself, “At last I have found what I seek; these must be my parents and uncles.”
Who acts: young Prince, these · What happens: say, find, seek, be · To what, where: Prince, parents · 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 (young Prince, these), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 himself | case |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
| 9 | At | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 last | acl:relcl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 seek | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seek | nsubj |
| 16 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | ccomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 parents | punct |
| 18 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 parents | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 parents | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 parents | cop |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 parents | nmod:poss |
| 22 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 uncles | cc |
| 24 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 parents | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 parents | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 parents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the young Prince | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present · perfect | the young Prince = prince | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | present | the young Prince = prince | what obj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | must | these | my parents and uncles | my nmod:poss; uncles conj | 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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