The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 31

Balna would say to her sisters: “Let us send that woman away; why does she want our fire, when she has her own house?

Who acts: Balna, us, our · What happens: say, let, send away, want, have, fire · To what, where: sisters, us, woman, fire, own house · 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 (Balna, us, our), 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	Balna	Balna	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 say	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 sisters	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sisters	nmod:poss
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
9	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Let	obj
11	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Let	xcomp
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 woman	det
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 send	obj
14	away	away	ADV	_	11 send	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 want	punct
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 want	advmod
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 want	aux
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 want	nsubj
19	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Let	conj
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 fire	nmod:poss
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 want	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 has	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 has	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 has	nsubj
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Let	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 house	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 house	amod
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	would	Balna		Balna's sisters		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sister=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
3	send away in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	that woman		away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
4	want in a quote	present · do-support	Balna	our fire			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fire=Theme
5	have in a quote	present	Balna	Balna's own house			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
6	fire in a quote		our				nom fire «event 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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 31