The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 16
Then said the Malee’s wife: “This country and this palace belong to a great Magician, who is all-powerful, and if anyone displeases him he turns them into stones and trees.
Who acts: country, great Magician, anyone · What happens: say, belong, be, displease, turn · To what, where: wife, country, palace, stones · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, great Magician, anyone), 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Malee | det |
| 4 | Malee | Malee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Malee | case |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 belong | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 belong | punct |
| 9 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belong | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 palace | cc |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 country | conj |
| 14 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Magician | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Magician | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Magician | amod |
| 18 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 belong | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 powerful | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 powerful | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 powerful | cop |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 powerful | advmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 all | punct |
| 24 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Magician | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 turns | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 turns | cc |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 displeases | mark |
| 28 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 displeases | nsubj |
| 29 | displeases | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 turns | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 displeases | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 turns | nsubj |
| 32 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 belong | advcl |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 turns | obj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 stones | case |
| 35 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 turns | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 trees | cc |
| 37 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 stones | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Malee's wife | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | belong in a quote | present | this country and this palace | to a great Magician | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a great Magician | powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | displease a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | anyone | country | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | turn in a quote | present | country | palace | stones and trees | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into stone=Trajectory |
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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