The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 34

One of the reasons that the daughters always prepared the food for their father was that there should be no danger of his being poisoned by his enemies, so when he found the mud mixed with his dinner he thought it was because they were careless; he knew they would not do such a thing on purpose.

Who acts: daughters, father, One, Rajah, mud · What happens: prepare, be, poison, find, mix, think · To what, where: reasons, mud, thing, purpose · 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 (daughters, father, One, Rajah), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 found	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 reasons	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reasons	det
4	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 prepared	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 daughters	det
7	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 prepared	nsubj
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 prepared	advmod
9	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reasons	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 food	det
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prepared	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	21 danger	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 danger	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 danger	cop
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 be	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 be	expl
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 be	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 danger	cop
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 danger	det
21	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prepared	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	28 enemies	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 enemies	nmod:poss
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 enemies	cop
25	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 enemies	amod
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 enemies	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 enemies	nmod:poss
28	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 danger	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 found	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 found	advmod
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 found	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 found	nsubj
33	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mud	det
35	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 found	obj
36	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 mud	acl
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 dinner	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 dinner	nmod:poss
39	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 mixed	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 thought	nsubj
41	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 found	parataxis
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 careless	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 careless	cop
44	because	because	SCONJ	_	47 careless	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 careless	nsubj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 careless	cop
47	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 thought	ccomp
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 knew	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 knew	nsubj
50	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 found	parataxis
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 do	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 do	aux
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 do	advmod
54	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 knew	ccomp
55	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	57 thing	det:predet
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	57 thing	det
57	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 do	obj
58	on	on	ADP	_	59 purpose	case
59	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 do	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prepare	past	the daughters	the reasons		the food obj; always property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary food=Product
2	is	past	daughters's father			for no danger	tree rules
3	poison	participle					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	gerund				of Rajah's poisoned enemies; Rajah nmod:poss	tree rules
5	find	past	One of the reasons	the mud		Rajah nsubj	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Topic
6	mix	participle		the mud not said here		with Rajah's dinner	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with dinner=Co-Patient
7	think speech: other	past	Rajah				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	mud			daughters = daughter nsubj; careless property	tree rules
9	know	past	Rajah				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	not do	would	daughters = daughter	such thing	purpose		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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 34

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 34