The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 30
She told him how the Magician had kept her shut up in the tower for twelve long years because she refused to marry him, and had kept her so closely guarded that there was no hope of release.
Who acts: wife, Magician, hope, release · What happens: tell, keep, shut up, refuse, not marry, guard · To what, where: Balna, shut tower, wife · 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 (wife, Magician, hope, release), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 kept | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Magician | det |
| 6 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | aux |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tower | nmod:poss |
| 10 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tower | amod |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 shut | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tower | det |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 16 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 years | amod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | obl |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 refused | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 refused | nsubj |
| 21 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 marry | mark |
| 23 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 refused | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 marry | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 kept | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 kept | cc |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 kept | aux |
| 28 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 kept | obj |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 closely | advmod |
| 31 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 32 guarded | advmod |
| 32 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 kept | advcl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 was | mark |
| 34 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 35 was | expl |
| 35 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 guarded | ccomp |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 hope | det |
| 37 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 was | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 release | case |
| 39 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hope | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | wife | Balna | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep | past · perfect | the Magician | wife's shut tower | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Theme | |||
| 3 | shut up | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | refuse | past | wife | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not marry | to-infinitive | wife not said here | Balna | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | keep | past · perfect | wife not said here | wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 7 | guard | participle | wife not said here | closely property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Beneficiary | ||||
| 8 | be | past | no hope of release | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | hope | release | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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