The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 64
So one day he sent for them and said, “My children, I would like to set you above all others in my palace, for I believe you capable of great deeds of virtue.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, say, like, set, believe · To what, where: you, others · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 children | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 children | punct |
| 12 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 children | nmod:poss |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 set | mark |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 like | xcomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 set | obj |
| 21 | above | above | ADP | _ | 23 others | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 others | det |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 set | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 palace | nmod:poss |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 believe | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 believe | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 believe | nsubj |
| 30 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 capable | nsubj |
| 32 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 believe | ccomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 deeds | case |
| 34 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 deeds | amod |
| 35 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 capable | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 virtue | case |
| 37 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 deeds | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | king | day | for virtue | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king not said here | My children ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | would | king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | king not said here | you | all others | in my palace | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme above other=Destination | ||
| 5 | believe in a quote | present | king | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=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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