The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 78
Suddenly he again heard the voice which had bade him fight with the seven men, and this time it said: “Go home now, for your mother is grieved at your absence.”
Who acts: SON, voice, bade, your · What happens: hear, have, fight, say, go, grieve · To what, where: voice, bade, mother, absence · 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 (SON, voice, bade, your), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 voice | acl:relcl |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bade | obj |
| 11 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bade | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 men | nummod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fight | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Go | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Go | punct |
| 24 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | ccomp |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 Go | advmod |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 Go | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 grieved | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 grieved | mark |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mother | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 grieved | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 grieved | aux:pass |
| 32 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 Go | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 absence | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 absence | nmod:poss |
| 35 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 grieved | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | SON | the voice | again | suddenly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | have | past | the voice | bade SON | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bade=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fight | present | bade SON not said here | with the seven men | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | bade | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | now | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | grieve in a quote | present · passive | your mother | your absence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | absent in a quote | your | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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