The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 13
His pupils agreed with him, but said that he should first change himself into some great animal, so that the King might not know him.
Who acts: pupils, FAKIR, King · What happens: agree, say, change, not know · To what, where: FAKIR · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pupils, FAKIR, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 pupils | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 change | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 change | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 change | aux |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 change | advmod |
| 13 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 change | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 animal | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 animal | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animal | amod |
| 18 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 change | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 know | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 know | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 know | advmod |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 change | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 know | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | FAKIR's pupils | with FAKIR | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | change | should | FAKIR | FAKIR | into some great animal result; first property | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into animal=Result | |||
| 4 | not know | might | the King | FAKIR | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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