The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 49
I will give orders for the preparation of our wedding feast this evening; and in the meanwhile I will show you my palace.”
Who acts: I · What happens: give, show, prepare · To what, where: orders, palace, you, meanwhile, wedding feast
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 preparation | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 preparation | det |
| 7 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 feast | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feast | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feast | compound |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 preparation | nmod |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 evening | det |
| 13 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 show | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 show | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 meanwhile | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 meanwhile | det |
| 18 | meanwhile | meanwhile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 show | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 show | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 show | aux |
| 21 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 show | iobj |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 show | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | orders | evening | for the preparation of our wedding feast | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent order=Theme for preparation=Asset | ||
| 2 | show | future | I | my palace | you | the meanwhile | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient palace=Topic | ||
| 3 | prepare | our wedding feast | nom preparation «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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