The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 2
He told her to have no fear, for he would certainly vanquish their enemy.
Who acts: Oku · What happens: tell, have, vanquish · To what, where: Commander, fear, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oku), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | xcomp |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 fear | det |
| 7 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 vanquish | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 vanquish | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 vanquish | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 vanquish | aux |
| 12 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 13 vanquish | advmod |
| 13 | vanquish | vanquish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vanquish | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Oku | Commander | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | Oku not said here | no fear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | vanquish | would | Oku | Shiku's enemy | certainly property | tree rules |
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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