The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 27
Such language to him, the King, meant that destruction must be meted out to those who dared to use it.
Who acts: Such language · What happens: mean, mete out, dare, use · To what, where: destruction · 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 (Such language), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 language | amod |
| 2 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meant | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 language | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 language | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 meant | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 9 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 destruction | det |
| 11 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 meted | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 meted | aux:pass |
| 14 | meted | mete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 meant | ccomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 meted | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 those | case |
| 17 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 meted | obl |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 dared | nsubj |
| 19 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 those | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 use | mark |
| 21 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 dared | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 use | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | Such language to lion | the King nsubj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mete out | must · passive | that destruction | to those | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dare | past | who nsubj | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | use | to-infinitive | destruction | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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