The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 94
Then Sarkap vowed a solemn vow never to play for another’s head; and after that he took a fresh mango branch, and the newborn babe, and placing them on a golden dish, gave them to Rasalu.
Who acts: Sarkap · What happens: vow, not play, take, place, give · To what, where: solemn vow, fresh mango branch, children, golden dish
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 (Sarkap), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 vowed | advmod |
| 2 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 vowed | nsubj |
| 3 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 vow | det |
| 5 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 vow | amod |
| 6 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 vowed | obj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 play | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 play | mark |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 vowed | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 another | case |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 play | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 took | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 after | fixed |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vowed | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 branch | det |
| 21 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 branch | amod |
| 22 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 branch | compound |
| 23 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 babe | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 babe | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 babe | det |
| 27 | newborn | newborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 babe | amod |
| 28 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 placing | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 placing | cc |
| 31 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 took | advcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 placing | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 dish | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 dish | det |
| 35 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dish | amod |
| 36 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 placing | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gave | punct |
| 38 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 gave | iobj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 Rasalu | case |
| 41 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 gave | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past | Sarkap | a solemn vow | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not play | to-infinitive | Sarkap not said here | for another's head | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for head=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Sarkap | a fresh mango branch | the newborn babe obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | |||
| 4 | place | gerund | Sarkap not said here | children = child | a golden dish | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on dish=Destination | |||
| 5 | give | past | Sarkap not said here | children = child | to Rasalu | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to rasalu=Recipient |
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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