The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 102
Before leaving the house he took Ting, Sin’s valet, aside, and ordered him on no account to leave his master alone, as he might become delirious at any moment.
Who acts: doctor · What happens: leave, take, order, become · To what, where: house, Ting, doctor, account, master
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 leaving | mark |
| 2 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 took | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaving | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Ting | Ting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 valet | punct |
| 9 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 valet | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Sin | case |
| 11 | valet | valet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ting | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 aside | punct |
| 13 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ordered | cc |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ordered | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 account | case |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 account | det |
| 20 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ordered | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 leave | mark |
| 22 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ordered | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 master | nmod:poss |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leave | obj |
| 25 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 22 leave | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 become | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 become | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 become | nsubj |
| 29 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 become | aux |
| 30 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 leave | conj |
| 31 | delirious | delirious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 become | xcomp |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 moment | case |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 moment | det |
| 34 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 delirious | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | doctor not said here | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | doctor | Ting | aside property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument ting=Destination | |||
| 3 | order | past | doctor not said here | doctor | no account | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | doctor not said here | doctor's master | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | |||
| 5 | become | might | doctor | delirious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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