The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 20
The bamboo-cutter then went out to the five knights, and told them what the Princess had said, and all of them were satisfied, because the test given to each one would prevent jealousy between them.
Who acts: bamboo cutter, Princess, all, test · What happens: go out, tell, say, be, give, prevent · To what, where: knights, test, one, jealousy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bamboo cutter, Princess, all, test), 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 | 4 cutter | det |
| 2 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cutter | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 bamboo | punct |
| 4 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 went | advmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 knights | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knights | det |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 knights | nummod |
| 11 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 said | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | aux |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 told | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 satisfied | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 satisfied | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 satisfied | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 all | nmod |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 satisfied | cop |
| 27 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 prevent | punct |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 prevent | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 test | det |
| 31 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 prevent | nsubj |
| 32 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 test | acl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 one | case |
| 34 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 given | obl |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 prevent | aux |
| 37 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 told | conj |
| 38 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 prevent | obj |
| 39 | between | between | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 prevent | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the bamboo cutter | then | to the five knights; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | knights = knight | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the Princess | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | all of knights | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | participle | the test not said here | each one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | prevent | would | the test | jealousy | between knights = knight | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer jealousy=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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