The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 93
Will they not at once disappear by the power they possess of rendering themselves invisible, and transport themselves instantly to the fairy, and give her an account of the insult offered her husband?
Who acts: councillors, account · What happens: not disappear, possess, render, transport, give, offer · To what, where: councillors, fairy, retinue, husband, insult
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (councillors, account), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 disappear | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 disappear | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 disappear | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 disappear | obl |
| 6 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 power | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 power | det |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 possess | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 possess | nsubj |
| 11 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 disappear | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 rendering | mark |
| 13 | rendering | render | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 possess | advcl |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 rendering | obj |
| 15 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rendering | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 transport | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 transport | cc |
| 18 | transport | transport | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 possess | conj |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 transport | obj |
| 20 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 18 transport | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 fairy | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fairy | det |
| 23 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transport | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 give | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 give | cc |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 disappear | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 account | det |
| 29 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 offered | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 insult | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 insult | det |
| 32 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 account | nmod |
| 33 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 give | advcl |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 husband | nmod:poss |
| 35 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 offered | obj |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 disappear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not disappear | future | councillors = councillor | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | possess | present | councillors = councillor | by the power | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | render | gerund | councillors = councillor not said here | councillors = councillor | invisible property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 4 | transport | infinitive | councillors = councillor not said here | councillors = councillor | the fairy | instantly property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to fairy=Destination | ||
| 5 | give | infinitive | councillors = councillor not said here | retinue | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | offer | past | a account of the insult | account's husband | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | ||||
| 7 | account | the insult | nom account «communication 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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