The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 6
The king commended him for his good conduct and for the manner in which he had acted upon the advice given by the three guards, and as a reward raised him to a position of power and honor.
Who acts: king, man, reward · What happens: commend, act, give, raise, conduct · To what, where: man, manner, advice, position
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 (king, man, reward), 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 | 3 commended | nsubj |
| 3 | commended | commend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commended | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 conduct | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 conduct | amod |
| 8 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commended | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 manner | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 manner | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 manner | det |
| 12 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 conduct | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 acted | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 acted | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 acted | aux |
| 17 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 manner | acl:relcl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 advice | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 advice | det |
| 20 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 acted | obl |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 advice | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 guards | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 guards | det |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 guards | nummod |
| 25 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 given | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 raised | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 raised | cc |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 raised | mark |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 reward | det |
| 30 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 raised | nsubj |
| 31 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commended | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 raised | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 position | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 position | det |
| 35 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 raised | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 power | case |
| 37 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 position | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 honor | cc |
| 39 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 position | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commend | past | the king | man | for man's good conduct and the manner | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for conduct=Attribute | |||
| 2 | act | past · perfect | man | the manner | upon the advice | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | give | participle | the advice not said here | by the three guards | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | raise | past | a reward | man | a position of power and honor | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to position=Destination | |||
| 5 | conduct | man | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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