The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 163
He provided her with twelve servants, each of whom held a silken string which was fastened to her leg, and you may be sure that she found but little pleasure flying about, hampered in this way.
Who acts: EMPEROR, you, girl, little pleasure · What happens: provide, hold, fasten, be, find, fly · To what, where: girl, silken string, little pleasure, way
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (EMPEROR, you, girl, little pleasure), 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 | 2 provided | nsubj |
| 2 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 provided | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 servants | case |
| 5 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 servants | nummod |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 provided | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 each | punct |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 servants | appos |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 held | mark |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 held | nsubj |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 each | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 string | det |
| 13 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 string | amod |
| 14 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fastened | aux:pass |
| 17 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 string | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 leg | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 leg | nmod:poss |
| 20 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fastened | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sure | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sure | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 sure | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 sure | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sure | cop |
| 26 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 provided | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 found | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 found | nsubj |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sure | ccomp |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 pleasure | cc |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pleasure | amod |
| 32 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 found | obj |
| 33 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 pleasure | acl |
| 34 | about | about | ADV | _ | 33 flying | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hampered | punct |
| 36 | hampered | hamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 pleasure | acl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 way | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 way | det |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hampered | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past | EMPEROR | girl | with twelve servants | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with servant=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | past | a silken string | whom nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fasten | past · passive | a silken string | to girl's leg | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to leg=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | past | girl | little pleasure | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Topic | ||||
| 6 | fly | gerund | little pleasure not said here | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hamper | participle | little pleasure not said here | this way | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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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