The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 90
She kissed the old man and his wife, and spoke words of comfort to them, saying that her heart was full of love for them, and that she was leaving them against her own will.
Who acts: Princess, heart · What happens: kiss, speak, say, be, leave, word · To what, where: old man, words, walls, own, comfort · 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 (Princess, heart), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wife | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoke | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spoke | cc |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | parataxis |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spoke | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 comfort | case |
| 14 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 words | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 comfort | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 spoke | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 full | mark |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 full | cop |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 love | case |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 full | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 leaving | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 leaving | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 leaving | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 leaving | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 leaving | aux |
| 33 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 kissed | advcl |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 leaving | obj |
| 35 | against | against | ADP | _ | 37 own | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 own | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 leaving | obl |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 leaving | aux |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | Princess | the old man and man's wife | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | words of comfort to walls | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | Princess's heart | of love; for walls = wall; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | Princess | walls = wall | Princess's own | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme against own=Location | |||
| 6 | word | comfort to walls | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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