The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 102
The servants would not let him enter the palace, saying that the Rajah’s sons had all gone away, and they feared that they were dead, and their widows must not be interrupted by his begging.
Who acts: servants, husband, sons, begging · What happens: not let, enter, say, go away, fear, be · To what, where: husband, palace, widows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, husband, sons, begging), 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 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 let | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 let | advmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enter | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 enter | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 gone | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rajah | det |
| 14 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Rajah | case |
| 16 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | aux |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 gone | advmod |
| 19 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 gone | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 feared | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 feared | nsubj |
| 24 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 dead | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 dead | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 dead | cop |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 feared | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 interrupted | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 interrupted | cc |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 widows | nmod:poss |
| 32 | widows | widow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 interrupted | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 interrupted | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 interrupted | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 interrupted | aux:pass |
| 36 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 let | parataxis |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 begging | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 begging | nmod:poss |
| 39 | begging | begging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 interrupted | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | would | the servants | husband | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | infinitive | husband not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | husband not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go away | past · perfect | the Rajah's sons | all, away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fear | past | sons = son | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | sons = son | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not interrupt | must · passive | husband's begging | sons's widows | 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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