The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 39
This petition they duly presented to the Lion, who said: “If this arrangement is more agreeable to you, I will be satisfied.”
Who acts: animals, petition, arrangement · What happens: present, say, be · To what, where: petition, Lion, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals, petition, arrangement), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 petition | det |
| 2 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 presented | nsubj |
| 4 | duly | duly | ADV | _ | 5 presented | advmod |
| 5 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 petition | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Lion | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Lion | det |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 agreeable | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 agreeable | punct |
| 14 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 agreeable | mark |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 arrangement | det |
| 16 | arrangement | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 agreeable | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 agreeable | cop |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 agreeable | advmod |
| 19 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 agreeable | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 satisfied | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 satisfied | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 satisfied | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 satisfied | cop |
| 26 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 agreeable | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | animals = animal | this petition not said here | the Lion | duly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent petition=Theme to lion=Recipient | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | this petition | who nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | this arrangement | you | agreeable property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | this petition = petition | satisfied property | tree rules |
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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