The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 17
The grand vizier immediately sent for her, when Schaibar, as he crushed her with his bar of iron, said, “Learn the consequence of giving wicked advice.”
Who acts: grand vizier, vizier, consequence · What happens: send, crush, say, learn, give · To what, where: Schaibar, Ahmed, consequence, wicked advice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (grand vizier, vizier, consequence), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vizier | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vizier | amod |
| 3 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Schaibar | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 Schaibar | advmod |
| 10 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crushed | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 crushed | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 crushed | nsubj |
| 14 | crushed | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 crushed | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 bar | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bar | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crushed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 iron | case |
| 20 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bar | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Learn | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Learn | punct |
| 25 | Learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 consequence | det |
| 27 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Learn | obj |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 giving | mark |
| 29 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 consequence | acl |
| 30 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 advice | amod |
| 31 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 giving | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 Learn | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the grand vizier | Schaibar | for Ahmed; immediately property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | crush | past | vizier | Ahmed | with vizier's bar of iron | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with bar=Instrument | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the grand vizier not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | learn in a quote | infinitive | the consequence | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | gerund | the consequence not said here | wicked advice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
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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