The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 82
Knowing that he could not kill them he spoke kindly to them, and told them to come out into the jungle with him.
Who acts: Rajah · What happens: know, not kill, speak, tell, come out · To what, where: daughters, jungle · 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 (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 | Knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 spoke | csubj |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 kill | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 kill | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 kill | advmod |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Knowing | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 kill | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spoke | nsubj |
| 9 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 9 spoke | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spoke | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spoke | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 told | xcomp |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 jungle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 jungle | det |
| 22 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | not kill | could | Rajah | daughters = daughter | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | Rajah | daughters = daughter | kindly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Rajah not said here | daughters = daughter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rajah not said here | the jungle | with Rajah; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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