The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 30
The young ruler became greatly attached to his new pet, and would allow no one but himself to look after it.
Who acts: one · What happens: attach, allow, look · To what, where: young ruler, one
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 (one), 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 | 3 ruler | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ruler | amod |
| 3 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attached | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 attached | aux:pass |
| 5 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 6 attached | advmod |
| 6 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pet | amod |
| 10 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attached | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 allow | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 allow | cc |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 allow | aux |
| 14 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 attached | parataxis |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 allow | obj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 himself | cc |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 one | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 look | mark |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 allow | xcomp |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 look | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 attached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | past · passive | the young ruler | to luncheon's new pet; greatly property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to pet=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | allow | would | no one luncheon | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer one=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | no one luncheon not said here | after ruler | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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