The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 3
The new general was aware of the source of the magician’s power, and he instructed all of the soldiers to gather large quantities of a certain plant.
Who acts: new general, Oku · What happens: be, instruct, gather · To what, where: all, large quantities
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 (new general, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 general | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 general | amod |
| 3 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aware | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 aware | cop |
| 5 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 source | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 source | det |
| 8 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aware | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 power | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 magician | det |
| 11 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 power | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 magician | case |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 source | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 instructed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 instructed | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 instructed | nsubj |
| 17 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 aware | conj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 instructed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 soldiers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 soldiers | det |
| 21 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 all | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 gather | mark |
| 23 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 instructed | xcomp |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 quantities | amod |
| 25 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gather | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 plant | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 plant | det |
| 28 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 plant | amod |
| 29 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 quantities | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the new general | of the source of the magician's power; aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | past | Oku | all of the soldiers | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent all=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | gather | to-infinitive | Oku not said here | large quantities of a certain plant | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=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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