The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 62

So he bade the women be comforted, and take pitchers of iron and brass, giving new ones from the treasury to those who did not possess any of their own.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: bade, comfort, take, give, not possess · To what, where: women, pitchers, new ones, those, treasury, any

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 (Prince), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 bade	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	nsubj
3	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 women	det
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bade	obj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 comforted	aux:pass
7	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bade	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 take	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 take	cc
10	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	parataxis
11	pitchers	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 take	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 iron	case
13	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pitchers	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 brass	cc
15	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 iron	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 giving	punct
17	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 take	advcl
18	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ones	amod
19	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 giving	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 treasury	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 treasury	det
22	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giving	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 those	case
24	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 giving	obl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 possess	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 possess	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 possess	advmod
28	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 those	acl:relcl
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 possess	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 own	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 own	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 any	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bade	past	Prince	the women				tree rules
2	comfort	infinitive · passive	Prince not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	take	infinitive		pitchers of iron and brass				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Theme
4	give	gerund		new ones	those	the treasury		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to that=Recipient
5	not possess	past · do-support		any of women's own			who nsubj	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot any=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 62

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 62