The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 5
The Royal Physician was summoned, but could do nothing.
What happens: summon, do · To what, where: Royal Physician, nothing
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: 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 Physician | det |
| 2 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Physician | amod |
| 3 | Physician | Physician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 summoned | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 summoned | aux:pass |
| 5 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 do | cc |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 summoned | parataxis |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past · passive | the Royal Physician | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | do | could | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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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