The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 84
He demanded the Princess for the General, saying that if the request were refused the fleet would destroy the city and all its people.
Who acts: brother, fleet · What happens: demand, say, refuse, destroy · To what, where: Princess, request, city · 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 (brother, fleet), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 demanded | nsubj |
| 2 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 demanded | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 General | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 General | det |
| 7 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 demanded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 demanded | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 destroy | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 refused | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 request | det |
| 13 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 refused | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 refused | aux:pass |
| 15 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 destroy | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fleet | det |
| 17 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 destroy | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 destroy | aux |
| 19 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 destroy | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 all | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 people | det:predet |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 people | nmod:poss |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 destroy | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | brother | the Princess | for the General | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme princess=Precondition | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | brother not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | refuse a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the request | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | destroy | would | the fleet | the city | fleet's people obj | tree rules |
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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