The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 16
Return to your own country and tell the king that many moons shall come and go before his son shall be restored.”
Who acts: you, king · What happens: return, tell, come, go, restore · To what, where: king, son · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 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 | Return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 country | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 country | amod |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Return | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Return | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 come | nsubj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 moons | amod |
| 12 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 king | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 restored | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 restored | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 restored | aux:pass |
| 22 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 go | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Return | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | imperative | you not said here | to your own country result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | shall | the king | many moons nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | the king not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | restore | shall · passive | king's son | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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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