The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 30
The bird chorus had brought back to him the health and strength which all the doctors, with their medicines, had not been able to do.
Who acts: health · What happens: bring back, doctor, not be, do, medicine · To what, where: bird chorus, Emperor
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (health), 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 chorus | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chorus | compound |
| 3 | chorus | chorus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 health | det |
| 10 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 doctors | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 strength | cc |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 health | conj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 doctors | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 doctors | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 doctors | det |
| 16 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 medicines | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 medicines | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 medicines | nmod:poss |
| 20 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 doctors | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 able | punct |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 able | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 able | advmod |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 able | cop |
| 25 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 doctors | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 do | mark |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 able | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | past · perfect · passive | the bird chorus | Emperor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | doctor | the health and strength | which nsubj; health's medicines conj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is | past · perfect | the health and strength not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | the health and strength not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | medicine | health | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=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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