The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 76
The second told them that they were welcome to enjoy all that the garden could offer, but that they must leave it just as they entered it, and take nothing away with them.
Who acts: second, summons, garden · What happens: tell, be, enjoy, offer, leave, enter · To what, where: summons, GARDEN, nothing · 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 (second, summons, garden), 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 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 welcome | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 welcome | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 welcome | cop |
| 8 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 enjoy | mark |
| 10 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 welcome | xcomp |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 offer | det:predet |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 offer | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 offer | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 offer | aux |
| 16 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enjoy | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leave | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 leave | cc |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 leave | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leave | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 leave | aux |
| 22 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leave | obj |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 entered | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 entered | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 entered | nsubj |
| 27 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 leave | advcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 entered | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 take | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 take | cc |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 32 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 31 take | obj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 take | advmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 take | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the second | summons = summon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | summons = summon | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enjoy | to-infinitive | summons = summon not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | offer | could | the garden | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | leave | must | summons = summon | GARDEN | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | enter | past | summons = summon | GARDEN | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 7 | take away | present | nothing | with summons = summon; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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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