The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 56
The Rajah told her to have no fear, and that he would soon find the conspirators and properly punish them.
Who acts: Rajah · What happens: tell, have, find, punish · To what, where: queen, fear, conspirators · 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 (Rajah), 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 Rajah | det |
| 2 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 fear | det |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 find | advmod |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 conspirators | det |
| 17 | conspirators | conspirator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 punish | cc |
| 19 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 20 punish | advmod |
| 20 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 find | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 punish | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Rajah | queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Rajah not said here | no fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | would | Rajah | the conspirators | soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conspirator=Topic | |||
| 4 | punish | infinitive | Rajah not said here | conspirators = conspirator | properly property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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