The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 2
He did all he could to persuade them to abide by a declaration of the princess in favor of one of them; or that all should agree to resign their claims to her hand, that she might marry a stranger.
Who acts: He, troubles, all, princess · What happens: do, persuade, abide, agree, resign, marry · To what, where: all, troubles, claims, hand, stranger, princess
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, troubles, all, princess), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 could | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 all | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 persuade | mark |
| 7 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 persuade | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 abide | mark |
| 10 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 persuade | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 declaration | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 declaration | det |
| 13 | declaration | declaration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 abide | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 princess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 declaration | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 favor | case |
| 18 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 princess | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 favor | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 one | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 agree | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 agree | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 agree | mark |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 agree | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 agree | aux |
| 28 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 did | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 resign | mark |
| 30 | resign | resign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 agree | xcomp |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 claims | nmod:poss |
| 32 | claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 resign | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 hand | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 resign | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 marry | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 marry | mark |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 marry | nsubj |
| 39 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 marry | aux |
| 40 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 resign | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 stranger | det |
| 42 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 marry | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | He | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | persuade | to-infinitive | He not said here | troubles = trouble | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | abide | to-infinitive | troubles = trouble not said here | by a declaration of the princess in favor of one of troubles | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | should | all | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | resign not said to happen | to-infinitive | all not said here | troubles's claims | princess's hand | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent claim=Theme to hand=Recipient | |||
| 6 | marry | might | princess | a stranger | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Patient | ||||
| 7 | declare | the princess in favor of one of troubles | nom declaration «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | claim | troubles = trouble | nom claim «communication 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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