The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 74
The Prince answered, “Liberate at once the Rajah’s seven sons whom you turned into rocks and stones.”
Who acts: Prince, you · What happens: answer, liberate, turn · To what, where: seven sons, rocks · 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 (Prince, you), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Liberate | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Liberate | punct |
| 6 | Liberate | liberate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 sons | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 sons | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rajah | det |
| 10 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sons | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Rajah | case |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 sons | nummod |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Liberate | obl |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 turned | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sons | acl:relcl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 rocks | case |
| 18 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 turned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stones | cc |
| 20 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rocks | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Liberate | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Liberate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | liberate in a quote | infinitive | at the Rajah's seven sons | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | past | you | the Rajah's seven sons | rocks and stones | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent whom=Theme into rock=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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