The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 101
‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I have overcome temptation, practised penance, and know the Scriptures.
Who acts: Sir, I · What happens: say, overcome, practise, know · To what, where: temptation, Scriptures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 overcome | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 overcome | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 overcome | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 overcome | aux |
| 11 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | parataxis |
| 12 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 overcome | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 penance | punct |
| 14 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 penance | amod |
| 15 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 temptation | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 overcome | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Scriptures | det |
| 20 | Scriptures | Scripture | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 know | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sir | sir nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | overcome | present · perfect | I | temptation and practised penance | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot temptation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | practise | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | know | infinitive | I not said here | the Scriptures | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer scripture=Stimulus |
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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