The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 31
In his gratitude to the birds he gave them the tree for their very own, and the poor fisherman he appointed bandmaster-in-chief.
Who acts: Emperor, poor fisherman · What happens: give, appoint · To what, where: tree, health, gratitude, bandmaster
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 (Emperor, poor fisherman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 gratitude | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 3 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 birds | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 birds | det |
| 6 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gratitude | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 own | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 own | nmod:poss |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 own | advmod |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appointed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 appointed | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fisherman | det |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fisherman | amod |
| 20 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 appointed | nsubj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 appointed | nsubj |
| 22 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gave | conj |
| 23 | bandmaster | bandmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 appointed | obj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 chief | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 chief | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 in | punct |
| 27 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bandmaster | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Emperor | the tree | health | Emperor's gratitude to the birds | for health's own | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tree=Theme for own=Asset | |
| 2 | appoint | past | the poor fisherman | bandmaster and chief | Emperor nsubj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bandmaster=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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