The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 29

When he was twenty, Pin-Too said he could not teach him any more, and told him to go back to his parents, and comfort them in their old age.

Who acts: Pei, Pin · What happens: be, say, not teach, tell, go back, comfort · To what, where: twenty, Pin, Pei, parents, old age · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei, Pin), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 twenty	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 twenty	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 twenty	cop
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 twenty	punct
6	Pin	Pin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Pin	punct
8	Too	too	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 teach	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 teach	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 teach	advmod
13	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 teach	obj
15	any	any	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 teach	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	xcomp
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 parents	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 parents	nmod:poss
26	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 go	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 comfort	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 comfort	cc
29	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 comfort	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 age	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 age	nmod:poss
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 age	amod
34	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comfort	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Pei	twenty				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Pin					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not teach speech: other	could	Pei		Pin			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	past	Pin not said here		Pei			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	Pin not said here				to Pei's parents result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to parent=Result
6	comfort	infinitive	Pin not said here	parents = parent		in parents's old age		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 29