The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 41
Then the King spoke to his Ministers, who agreed that the stipend asked was very large, but advised that he be given four days’ pay, and to see what the soldier should do to earn it.
Who acts: King, Ministers, stipend, soldier, four days · What happens: speak, agree, ask, be, advise, give · To what, where: King, stipend · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, Ministers, stipend, soldier), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Ministers | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Ministers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spoke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 agreed | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 agreed | nsubj |
| 10 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Ministers | acl:relcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 large | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stipend | det |
| 13 | stipend | stipend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 large | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stipend | acl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 large | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 large | advmod |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 agreed | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 advised | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 advised | cc |
| 20 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 given | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 given | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 given | aux:pass |
| 24 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 advised | ccomp |
| 25 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 days | nummod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 pay | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 26 days | case |
| 28 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 given | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 see | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 see | cc |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 see | mark |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spoke | conj |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 do | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 soldier | det |
| 35 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 do | nsubj |
| 36 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 do | aux |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 see | ccomp |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 earn | mark |
| 39 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 do | advcl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 earn | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the King | then | to King's Ministers | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to minister=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | King's Ministers | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the stipend not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the stipend | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | advise speech: other | past | the King not said here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | give | infinitive · passive | King | four days's pay obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient pay=Theme | ||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | do | should | the soldier | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | earn | to-infinitive | the soldier not said here | stipend | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 10 | pay | four days | nom pay «possession 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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