The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 94
One day he called the faithful animals and bade them carry a magic ring to his daughter.
Who acts: dog, animals · What happens: call, carry · To what, where: faithful animals, magic ring, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, animals), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animals | det |
| 6 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animals | amod |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bade | cc |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 animals | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carry | nsubj |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 animals | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 13 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ring | amod |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 daughter | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | dog | the faithful animals and bade | day | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient | |||
| 2 | carry | present | animals = animal | a magic ring | dog's daughter | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to daughter=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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