The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 18
Musai spoke kindly to him, and said that this punishment had come to him on account of his envy and jealousy, which bring happiness to no one.
Who acts: Musai, punishment, jealousy, Larger · What happens: speak, say, come, bring, account, envy · To what, where: Larger, account, happiness, one, envy · 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 (Musai, punishment, jealousy, 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 | Musai | Musai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 come | mark |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 punishment | det |
| 11 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 come | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 account | case |
| 17 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 envy | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 envy | nmod:poss |
| 20 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 account | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 jealousy | cc |
| 22 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 envy | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bring | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 bring | nsubj |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 jealousy | acl:relcl |
| 26 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 one | case |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Musai | Larger = large | kindly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Musai not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | this punishment | Larger = large | account of Larger's envy and jealousy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | bring | present | jealousy | happiness | no one | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme to one=Destination | |||
| 5 | account | Larger's envy and jealousy | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | envy | Larger = large | nom envy «feeling 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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