The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 36
Had he made a request for water with gentle words, it would without doubt have been given to him, but in the foolishness of his pride and anger he demanded that which was not his.
Who acts: language · What happens: make, give, demand, pride · To what, where: request, language, foolishness
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 (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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 request | det |
| 5 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 request | nmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 words | amod |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 given | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 would | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 doubt | case |
| 15 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 would | obl |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 given | aux:pass |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 given | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 demanded | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 demanded | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 foolishness | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 foolishness | det |
| 25 | foolishness | foolishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 demanded | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 pride | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 pride | nmod:poss |
| 28 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 foolishness | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 anger | cc |
| 30 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pride | conj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 demanded | nsubj |
| 32 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 which | mark |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 demanded | obj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 his | cop |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 his | advmod |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 which | aux |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | language | a request | for water; with gentle words | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent request=Product for water=Asset | |||
| 2 | give | would · perfect · passive | language not said here | language | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | past | language | the foolishness of language's pride and anger | which obj | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Precondition | |||
| 4 | pride | language | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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