The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 96
The queen, his mother, tried to correct her son’s conduct, assuring him that if he did not take another course, he would cause some revolution, which perhaps might cost him his crown and his life.
Who acts: queen, PRINCE, revolution, son · What happens: try, correct, assure, not take, cause, cost · To what, where: conduct, PRINCE, course, revolution, crown
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, PRINCE, revolution, son), 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 | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 queen | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 queen | punct |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 correct | mark |
| 9 | correct | correct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 son | case |
| 13 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 correct | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 assuring | punct |
| 15 | assuring | assure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 correct | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 assuring | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 cause | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 take | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 take | advmod |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 cause | advcl |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 course | det |
| 24 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cause | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 cause | aux |
| 28 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 assuring | advcl |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 revolution | det |
| 30 | revolution | revolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cause | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 cost | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 cost | nsubj |
| 33 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 35 cost | advmod |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 cost | aux |
| 35 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 revolution | acl:relcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 cost | iobj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 crown | nmod:poss |
| 38 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 cost | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 life | cc |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 life | nmod:poss |
| 41 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 crown | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the queen | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | correct speech: disagree not said to happen | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | queen's son's conduct | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent conduct=Patient | ||||
| 3 | assure | gerund | the queen not said here | PRINCE | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not take a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | PRINCE | another course | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cause | would | PRINCE | some revolution | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition revolution=Patient | ||||
| 6 | cost | might | some revolution | PRINCE's crown and PRINCE's life | PRINCE | perhaps property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary crown=Value | ||
| 7 | conduct | queen's son | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | crown | PRINCE | nom crown «communication 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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