The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 99
He dismissed his youthful advisers and committed the government to discreet aged men.
Who acts: SULTAN · What happens: dismiss, commit · To what, where: youthful advisers, government, discreet aged men
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 (SULTAN), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dismissed | nsubj |
| 2 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 advisers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 advisers | amod |
| 5 | advisers | adviser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dismissed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 committed | cc |
| 7 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dismissed | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 government | det |
| 9 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 committed | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 11 | discreet | discreet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 12 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 committed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dismissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismiss | past | SULTAN | SULTAN's youthful advisers | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adviser=Theme | ||||
| 2 | commit | past | SULTAN not said here | the government | discreet aged men | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent government=Theme to man=Destination |
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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