The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 30
Under their advice she ordered her subjects to collect all the stones they could find of these five colors—red, blue, yellow, white and black.
Who acts: damage, subjects, stones · What happens: order, collect, find · To what, where: subjects, advice, stones
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 (damage, subjects, stones), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 advice | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 advice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ordered | nsubj |
| 5 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 7 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ordered | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 collect | mark |
| 9 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ordered | xcomp |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 stones | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stones | det |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 collect | obj |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stones | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 colors | case |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 colors | det |
| 18 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 colors | nummod |
| 19 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 find | obl |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 red | punct |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 colors | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 blue | punct |
| 23 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 red | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 yellow | punct |
| 25 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 red | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 white | punct |
| 27 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 red | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 black | cc |
| 29 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 red | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | damage | damage's subjects | heavens's advice | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | collect not said to happen | to-infinitive | damage's subjects not said here | all stones | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | could | stones = stone | all stones not said here | of this five colors | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic |
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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