The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 82
Mobarec then said to the servants that attended them, “Do you remain here till we return.”
Who acts: Mobarec, servants, we · What happens: say, attend, remain, return · To what, where: servants · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mobarec, servants, we), 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 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 servants | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 servants | det |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 attended | nsubj |
| 8 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 servants | acl:relcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 attended | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remain | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 remain | punct |
| 12 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 remain | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 remain | nsubj |
| 14 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 remain | advmod |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 return | mark |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 return | nsubj |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 remain | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 remain | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Mobarec | the servants | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | attend | past | the servants | servants = servant | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Goal | ||||
| 3 | remain in a quote | present · do-support | the servants = servant | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return in a quote | present | we | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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