The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 80
Then she told him that if he would save her life, he must kill his seven daughters, and put some of their blood on her forehead and on the palms of her hands; that their death would be her life.
Who acts: stepmother, thing, death, lives · What happens: tell, save, kill, put, be, die · To what, where: thing, life, seven daughters, some, forehead · 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 (stepmother, thing, death, lives), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | 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 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 save | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 save | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 save | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 save | aux |
| 9 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 save | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 17 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 daughters | nummod |
| 18 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 kill | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 kill | conj |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 blood | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 blood | nmod:poss |
| 25 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 some | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 forehead | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 28 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 palms | cc |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 palms | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 palms | det |
| 32 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 forehead | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 hands | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hands | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 palms | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 life | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 life | mark |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 death | nmod:poss |
| 39 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 life | nsubj |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 life | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 life | cop |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 life | nmod:poss |
| 43 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | stepmother | thing | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | save a condition, not said to happen | would | thing | stepmother's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | must | thing | thing's seven daughters | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | thing not said here | some of lives's blood | stepmother's forehead and the palms of stepmother's hands | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme on forehead=Destination | |||
| 5 | is a | would | lives's death | stepmother's life | stepmother nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 6 | die | lives = life | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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