The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 89

Just then, a servant came in to announce the birth of a daughter to Rajah Sarkap, and he, overcome by misfortunes, said, “Kill her at once!

Who acts: servant · What happens: come in, announce, overcome, say, kill · To what, where: birth, woman · 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 (servant), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 then	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 then	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 servant	det
5	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 announce	mark
9	announce	announce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birth	det
11	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 announce	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 daughter	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 daughter	det
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 birth	nmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Rajah	case
16	Rajah	Rajah	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 daughter	nmod
17	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Rajah	flat
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 overcome	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 overcome	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 overcome	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 overcome	punct
22	overcome	overcome	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	conj
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 misfortunes	case
24	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 overcome	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Kill	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Kill	punct
29	Kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 Kill	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 Kill	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	a servant		then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	announce speech: other	to-infinitive	a servant not said here	the birth of a daughter to Rajah			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme
3	overcome	participle	servant			by misfortunes	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4	say speech: express	past	a servant not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	kill in a quote	infinitive		woman			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 21, sentence 89

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Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 89