The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 29
To this Golden-skin objected, but King Speckle-neck said that he could not bear to see those who depended upon him in such distress.
Who acts: King neck, neck · What happens: object, say, not bear, see, depend · To what, where: Golden skin, those, such distress · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King neck, neck), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 skin | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 skin | det |
| 3 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skin | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Golden | punct |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 objected | obl |
| 6 | objected | object | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 neck | compound |
| 10 | Speckle | Speckle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | flat |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 King | punct |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 objected | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 bear | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bear | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 bear | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 bear | advmod |
| 18 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 bear | xcomp |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 depended | nsubj |
| 23 | depended | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 those | acl:relcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 depended | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 distress | case |
| 27 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 distress | amod |
| 28 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 depended | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 objected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | object speech: other | participle | this Golden skin | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to skin=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King neck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not bear | could | neck | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | neck not said here | those | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | depend | past | such distress | upon neck; who nsubj | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=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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