The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 52

After some discussion, he consented to accept a stick to which he had only to say, “Boombye, Boomba,” and it would beat and kill anything he wished.

Who acts: JUAN, stick · What happens: consent, accept, have, say, beat, kill · To what, where: stick, Boombye, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (JUAN, stick), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 discussion	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 discussion	det
3	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consented	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 discussion	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 consented	nsubj
6	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 accept	mark
8	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 consented	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stick	det
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accept	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stick	parataxis
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Boombye	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Boombye	punct
20	Boombye	Boombye	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 say	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Boomba	punct
22	Boomba	Boomba	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Boombye	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Boomba	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 Boombye	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 beat	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 beat	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 beat	aux
28	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 kill	cc
30	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 beat	conj
31	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 kill	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 wished	nsubj
33	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 anything	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	consent	past	JUAN		after some discussion		vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	accept	to-infinitive	JUAN not said here	a stick			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	have	past	JUAN			to a stick	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	JUAN not said here	Boombye			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boombye=Topic
5	beat	would	stick				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	kill	infinitive	stick not said here	anything			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
7	wish	past	JUAN				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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 22, sentence 52