The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 38

Haki and Oku were chosen by the Empress to be her messengers to the sun and moon to tell them that the roads were now perfectly safe.

Who acts: Empress, roads · What happens: choose, be, tell · To what, where: Haki, messengers · 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 (Empress, roads), 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	Haki	Haki	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chosen	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Oku	cc
3	Oku	Oku	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Haki	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chosen	aux:pass
5	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 Empress	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Empress	det
8	Empress	empress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chosen	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	12 messengers	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 messengers	cop
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 messengers	nmod:poss
12	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chosen	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 sun	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 messengers	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 moon	cc
17	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sun	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chosen	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 safe	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 roads	det
23	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 safe	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 safe	cop
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 safe	advmod
26	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	27 safe	advmod
27	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tell	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past · passive	the Empress	Haki and Oku				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	the Empress not said here	Empress's messengers			to the sun and moon; Empress nmod:poss	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			Haki			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	is	past	the roads			now	perfectly, safe 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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 38

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 38