The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 40
Now, when the slaves brought the trays to Rajah Rasalu, he rose up haughtily, saying: “Go tell your master I have naught to do with him in friendship.
Who acts: slaves, Rajah · What happens: bring, rise up, say, go, tell, have · To what, where: trays, Rajah, master, naught, friendship · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaves, Rajah), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 brought | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 brought | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slaves | det |
| 5 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trays | det |
| 8 | trays | tray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Rajah | case |
| 10 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 11 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rajah | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rose | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 rose | compound:prt |
| 16 | haughtily | haughtily | ADV | _ | 14 rose | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saying | punct |
| 18 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 rose | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Go | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Go | punct |
| 21 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 saying | ccomp |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Go | xcomp |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 master | nmod:poss |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tell | obj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 have | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 tell | ccomp |
| 27 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 26 have | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 do | mark |
| 29 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 naught | acl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 do | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 friendship | case |
| 33 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 do | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the slaves | the trays | Rajah | now | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tray=Theme to rajah=Destination | ||
| 2 | rise up | past | Rajah | haughtily property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Rajah not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | your master | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | Rajah | naught | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naught=Patient | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Rajah not said here | naught not said here | friendship | with Rajah | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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