The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 17
He was humble, confessed everything, and asked his brother to forgive him.
Who acts: Larger · What happens: be, confess, ask, forgive · To what, where: everything, brother, Larger
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 (Larger), 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 | 3 humble | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 humble | cop |
| 3 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 confessed | punct |
| 5 | confessed | confess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 humble | conj |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 confessed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 humble | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 forgive | mark |
| 13 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 forgive | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 humble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Larger = large | humble property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | confess | participle | Larger = large not said here | everything | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Larger = large not said here | Larger's brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | forgive not said to happen | to-infinitive | Larger = large not said here | Larger = large | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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