The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 14

At last he broke silence, and said to them in terms full of wisdom, “I would declare for one of you, my sons, if I could do it with justice.

Who acts: sultan · What happens: break, say, declare, do · To what, where: silence, last, women, terms, sons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 terms	case
12	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obl
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 terms	amod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 wisdom	case
15	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 declare	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 declare	punct
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 declare	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 declare	aux
20	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	parataxis
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 declare	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 one	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sons	punct
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sons	nmod:poss
27	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 declare	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 do	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 do	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 do	aux
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 declare	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 do	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 justice	case
35	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 do	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past	sultan	silence		last		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer silence=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	sultan not said here		women = woman	terms		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	declare speech: other in a quote	would	sultan	my sons			for one of you	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	sultan	silence			with justice	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 14

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 14