The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 39
After spending some time in vain efforts to capture the bird, the ladies begged the Rajah to leave it with them for a few days, promising to take the greatest care of it.
Who acts: ladies, room · What happens: spend, capture, beg, leave, promise, take · To what, where: vain efforts, bird, Rajah, room, greatest care · 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 (ladies, room), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 spending | mark |
| 2 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 begged | advcl |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spending | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 efforts | case |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 efforts | amod |
| 7 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spending | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 capture | mark |
| 9 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spending | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 capture | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spending | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ladies | det |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 begged | nsubj |
| 15 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Rajah | det |
| 17 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 begged | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 leave | mark |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 begged | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 days | det |
| 25 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leave | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 promising | punct |
| 28 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 begged | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 take | mark |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 promising | xcomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 care | det |
| 32 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 care | amod |
| 33 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 take | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 care | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | gerund | the ladies not said here | vain efforts | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | capture | to-infinitive | the ladies not said here | the bird | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | the ladies | the Rajah | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rajah=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | room | day | with ladies = lady | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with they=Theme | |||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | gerund | the ladies not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the ladies not said here | the greatest care of room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 7 | care | room | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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