The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 61
This ruler issued a decree that no one in his dominions should receive any reward, office or honor that he did not truly deserve.
Who acts: ruler, one, king · What happens: issue, receive, not deserve · To what, where: decree, reward, honor
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 (ruler, one, king), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 ruler | det |
| 2 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 issued | nsubj |
| 3 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 decree | det |
| 5 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 issued | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 receive | mark |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 receive | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dominions | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 11 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 receive | aux |
| 13 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 issued | advcl |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 reward | det |
| 15 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 receive | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 office | punct |
| 17 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reward | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 honor | cc |
| 19 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reward | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 deserve | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 deserve | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 deserve | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 deserve | advmod |
| 24 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 25 deserve | advmod |
| 25 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 honor | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | past | this ruler | a decree | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location decree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | receive | should | no one in king's dominions | any reward and office or honor | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not deserve | past · do-support | king | honor not said here | truly property | 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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