The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 103
The father was kept in a little dark room by himself that he might not get hurt, and the Sultan said to his brother:
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: keep, not hurt, say · To what, where: father, little dark room, brother · 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 room | amod |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 room | amod |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 room | nmod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 hurt | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hurt | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hurt | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 hurt | advmod |
| 16 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hurt | aux:pass |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 kept | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sultan | det |
| 21 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 brother | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | the father | a little dark room by father | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in room=Location | ||||
| 2 | not hurt | might · passive | father | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Sultan | Sultan's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=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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