The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 44
This division he made at the beginning of each day, and then he would stand on guard with his sabre at the palace gate, from whence he would retire only upon receiving the royal permission.
Who acts: division · What happens: make, stand, retire, receive, begin · To what, where: beginning, guard, royal permission, day
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 (division), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 division | det |
| 2 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 beginning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beginning | det |
| 7 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beginning | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stand | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stand | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 stand | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stand | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 stand | aux |
| 16 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 guard | case |
| 18 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stand | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 sabre | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sabre | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stand | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 gate | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gate | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gate | compound |
| 25 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sabre | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 retire | punct |
| 27 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 31 retire | mark |
| 28 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 retire | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 retire | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 retire | aux |
| 31 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stand | conj |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 receiving | advmod |
| 33 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 34 receiving | mark |
| 34 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 retire | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 permission | det |
| 36 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 permission | amod |
| 37 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 receiving | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this division | at the beginning of each day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | stand | would | division | guard | then | with division's sabre at the palace gate | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on guard=Location | ||
| 3 | retire | would | division | whence property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | receive | gerund | division not said here | the royal permission | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent permission=Theme | ||||
| 5 | begin | each day | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=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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