The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 47
All this Balna told her son, at the same time imploring him to make no attempt to kill the parrot.
Who acts: Balna, same time · What happens: tell, implore, make, kill · To what, where: son, attempt, parrot · 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 (Balna, same time), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Balna | det |
| 3 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | ccomp |
| 12 | imploring | implore | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 time | acl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 imploring | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 imploring | advcl |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 attempt | det |
| 17 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 kill | mark |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 attempt | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 parrot | det |
| 21 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kill | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | this Balna | life's son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | implore | gerund | the same time not said here | son | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the same time not said here | no attempt | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product | ||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | the same time not said here | the parrot | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme |
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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