The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 70
The king had ordered, and the three young men had to obey, although they did not relish leaving the court, where life was very pleasant for them.
Who acts: king, three young men, summons, life · What happens: order, have, obey, not relish, leave, be · To what, where: court
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, three young men, summons, life), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | aux |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 men | nummod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 obey | mark |
| 13 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 relish | punct |
| 15 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 19 relish | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 relish | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 relish | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 relish | advmod |
| 19 | relish | relish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 obey | conj |
| 20 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 relish | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 court | det |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaving | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pleasant | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 pleasant | advmod |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pleasant | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 pleasant | cop |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 pleasant | advmod |
| 28 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leaving | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pleasant | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past · perfect | the king | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the three young men | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | obey | to-infinitive | the three young men not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not relish | past · do-support | summons = summon | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | leave | gerund | summons = summon not said here | the court | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | life | for summons = summon; pleasant 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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