The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 114
The Empress sent Oku to the South Pole to ask Shiku for help, and this the Fire King at once promised to give.
Who acts: Empress, Fire King · What happens: send, ask, promise, give · To what, where: Oku, South Pole, Shiku
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Empress, Fire King), 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 Empress | det |
| 2 | Empress | Empress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Pole | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pole | det |
| 7 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Pole | compound |
| 8 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 11 | Shiku | Shiku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 promised | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 promised | cc |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 the | nsubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 18 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 King | compound |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 promised | nsubj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 promised | obl |
| 22 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 give | mark |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 promised | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Empress | Oku | the South Pole | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oku=Theme to pole=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the Empress not said here | Shiku | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shiku=Recipient | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | the Fire King | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Fire King not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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