The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 60
Hearing this, Rajah Sarkap frowned, and bade his slaves remove Bhanur, the Arab steed, since he gave his master advice in the game.
Who acts: Rajah, bade slaves · What happens: hear, frown, remove, give · To what, where: this, Bhanur, master advice, game
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 (Rajah, bade slaves), 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 | Hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 frowned | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Hearing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearing | punct |
| 4 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 frowned | nsubj |
| 5 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rajah | flat |
| 6 | frowned | frown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remove | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 remove | cc |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slaves | compound |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 11 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 remove | nsubj |
| 12 | remove | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 frowned | conj |
| 13 | Bhanur | Bhanur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 remove | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 steed | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 steed | det |
| 16 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 steed | amod |
| 17 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Bhanur | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 19 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 21 gave | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frowned | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 advice | nmod:poss |
| 23 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 advice | compound |
| 24 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 game | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 game | det |
| 27 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 frowned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | Rajah not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | frown | past | Rajah | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remove | present | Rajah's bade slaves | Bhanur | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bhanur=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Rajah | Rajah's master advice | the game | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=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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