The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 27

The Malee’s wife advised him to fasten this ring to the bouquet he was to present to his mother, and she would surely recognize it.

Who acts: wife, Balna · What happens: advise, fasten, be, recognize · To what, where: Balna, ring

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 (wife, Balna), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Malee	det
2	Malee	Malee	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Malee	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 advised	nsubj
5	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 advised	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fasten	mark
8	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 advised	xcomp
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 ring	det
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fasten	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 bouquet	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bouquet	det
13	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fasten	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 present	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 present	cop
16	to	to	PART	_	17 present	mark
17	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 bouquet	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 mother	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 present	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 recognize	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 recognize	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 recognize	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 recognize	aux
25	surely	surely	ADV	_	26 recognize	advmod
26	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 advised	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 recognize	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 advised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	advise speech: other	past	the Malee's wife	Balna		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fasten not said to happen	to-infinitive	Balna not said here	this ring	to the bouquet	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient to bouquet=Co-Patient
3	is	past	Balna		to Balna's mother; present property	tree rules
4	recognize	would	wife	ring	surely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 4, sentence 27

The tree

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 27