The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 12
They begged him to say that their love for her was boundless, and ask for an opportunity to plead their cause.
Who acts: knights, love · What happens: beg, say, be, ask, plead, love · To what, where: man, cause · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, love), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 begged | nsubj |
| 2 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 begged | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 begged | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 boundless | mark |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 boundless | nsubj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 love | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 boundless | cop |
| 12 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 say | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ask | cc |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 say | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 opportunity | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 opportunity | det |
| 18 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 plead | mark |
| 20 | plead | plead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 opportunity | acl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 cause | nmod:poss |
| 22 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plead | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | knights = knight | man | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | knights = knight not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | knights's love for Princess | boundless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | knights = knight not said here | for a opportunity | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | plead speech: request | to-infinitive | knights = knight not said here | knights's cause | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | love | knights = knight | for Princess | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | |||||
| 7 | cause | knights = knight | nom cause «event 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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