The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 75
The first said that their stay in the garden would not be forever; that the time would come when they would be forced to leave.
Who acts: first, stay, time, summons · What happens: say, not be, come, force, leave, stay · To what, where: summons, garden · 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 (first, stay, time, summons), 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 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 forever | mark |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stay | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forever | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garden | det |
| 9 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | nmod |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 forever | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 forever | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forever | cop |
| 13 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 3 said | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 time | det |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 forced | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 forced | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 forced | aux:pass |
| 24 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 come | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 leave | mark |
| 26 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 forced | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the first | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | would | summons's stay in the garden | forever property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | would | that time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | force | would · passive | summons = summon | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | summons = summon not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | stay | summons = summon | the garden | nom stay «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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