The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 3

But to none of them would the old man grant permission to address his adopted daughter, and at last all but five of them lost hope, and departed to their homes.

Who acts: five · What happens: address, adopt, lose, depart · To what, where: adopted daughter, hope, homes, old grant permission

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 (five), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 permission	cc
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 none	case
3	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 permission	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 none	nmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 permission	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 permission	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 permission	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grant	compound
10	grant	grant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 permission	compound
11	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 address	mark
13	address	address	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 permission	acl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
15	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 daughter	amod
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 address	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 all	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 all	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 all	obl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 permission	appos
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 lost	cc
23	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 lost	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 five	nmod
26	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 all	conj
27	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lost	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 departed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 departed	cc
30	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 lost	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 homes	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 homes	nmod:poss
33	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 departed	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 permission	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	address	to-infinitive			country's adopted daughter		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Destination
2	adopt	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lose	past	five of lands	hope			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Eventuality
4	depart	participle	five of lands not said here			lands's homes	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location

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 5, sentence 3

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 3