The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 52
My father—who is rather hasty—ordered him to be thrown downstairs.
Who acts: father · What happens: be, order, throw · To what, where: am
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hasty | nsubj |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hasty | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 hasty | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hasty | cop |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 hasty | advmod |
| 7 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ordered | punct |
| 9 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hasty | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ordered | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 thrown | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thrown | aux:pass |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ordered | xcomp |
| 14 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 13 thrown | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hasty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My father | who nsubj; hasty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | order | past | My father not said here | am = a.m. | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | throw not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | My father not said here | downstairs property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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