The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 107
He insisted upon entering the palace, but instead of being allowed to do this he was thrown into prison.
Who acts: youth · What happens: insist, enter, allow, do, throw · To what, where: palace, this, youth, prison
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 insisted | nsubj |
| 2 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 4 entering | mark |
| 4 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 insisted | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entering | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 allowed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 allowed | cc |
| 9 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 allowed | mark |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 instead | fixed |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 allowed | aux:pass |
| 12 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 insisted | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 allowed | xcomp |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thrown | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thrown | aux:pass |
| 18 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 do | ccomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 prison | case |
| 20 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thrown | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other | past | youth | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | enter | gerund | youth not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | allow | gerund · passive | youth not said here | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | youth not said here | this | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | throw | past · passive | youth | into prison result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into prison=Result |
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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