The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 102
Then he sent his brother to bring his father, who was a very old man, to see if he could tell.
Who acts: Sultan, father · What happens: send, bring, be, see, tell · To what, where: brother, father, old man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, father), 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 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 man | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 old | advmod |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 father | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bring | conj |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | aux |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Sultan | Sultan's brother | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | Sultan not said here | Sultan's father and a old man | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument father=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Sultan's father and a old man | a old man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Sultan not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | could | Sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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