The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 48
But they, having no idea of obeying what they considered to be an impossible order, merely used this as an excuse for taking a pleasant holiday.
Who acts: knights, idea, impossible order, excuse · What happens: have, obey, consider, be, use, take · To what, where: idea, impossible order, this, pleasant holiday
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 (knights, idea, impossible order, excuse), 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 | _ | 4 having | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 having | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 idea | det |
| 6 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 having | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 obeying | mark |
| 8 | obeying | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 idea | acl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 obeying | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 considered | nsubj |
| 11 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 order | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 order | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 order | det |
| 15 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 order | amod |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 considered | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 used | punct |
| 18 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 19 used | advmod |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 order | acl |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 used | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 excuse | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 excuse | det |
| 23 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 used | obl |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 taking | mark |
| 25 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 excuse | acl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 holiday | det |
| 27 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 holiday | amod |
| 28 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 taking | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | knights = knight | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | obey | gerund | no idea not said here | no idea | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | consider | past | knights = knight | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | knights = knight not said here | a impossible order | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | use | participle | a impossible order not said here | this | as a excuse; merely property | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent this=Duration as excuse=Attribute | |||
| 6 | take | gerund | a excuse not said here | a pleasant holiday | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=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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