The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 106
And he told them that he and Bantugan’s father years ago had made a contract that their children and children’s children should inter-marry, and now since the Sultan had promised his daughter to two people, he foresaw that great trouble would come to the land.
Who acts: man, children, Sultan, great trouble · What happens: tell, make, marry, promise, foresee, come · To what, where: flags, father years, daughter, land · 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 (man, children, Sultan, great trouble), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 made | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Bantugan | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Bantugan | cc |
| 8 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 father | compound |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Bantugan | case |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 years | compound |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 years | advmod |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 contract | det |
| 16 | contract | contract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 marry | mark |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 children | nmod:poss |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 children | nmod:poss |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 children | cc |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 children | conj |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 children | case |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 marry | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 marry | aux |
| 25 | inter | inter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 marry | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 inter | punct |
| 27 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 promised | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 promised | cc |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 promised | advmod |
| 31 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 35 promised | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Sultan | det |
| 33 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 promised | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 promised | aux |
| 35 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | conj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 promised | iobj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 people | case |
| 39 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 people | nummod |
| 40 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 promised | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 foresaw | punct |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 foresaw | nsubj |
| 43 | foresaw | foresee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 come | mark |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 trouble | amod |
| 46 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 come | nsubj |
| 47 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 come | aux |
| 48 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 foresaw | ccomp |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 land | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 land | det |
| 51 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 come | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | man | flags = flag | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | father years | a contract obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary contract=Product | ||||
| 3 | marry | should | flags's children and children's children | inter nsubj | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | the Sultan | man's daughter | now | to two people goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to people=Goal | ||
| 5 | foresee | past | Sultan | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come | would | great trouble | the land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location |
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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