The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 59
So the messenger at last returned, and when the Emperor heard that she would disappear from sight in preference to obeying his order, he made up his mind to go and see her himself.
Who acts: messenger, Emperor, Princess · What happens: return, hear, disappear, obey, make up, go · To what, where: sight, order, mind, Princess
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 (messenger, Emperor, Princess), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 messenger | det |
| 3 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 messenger | nmod |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 heard | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Emperor | det |
| 11 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 disappear | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 disappear | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 disappear | aux |
| 16 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 heard | xcomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 disappear | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 preference | case |
| 20 | preference | preference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 disappear | obl |
| 21 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 22 obeying | mark |
| 22 | obeying | obey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 disappear | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 order | nmod:poss |
| 24 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 obeying | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | nsubj |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 made | compound:prt |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mind | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 go | mark |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 made | advcl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 see | cc |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 go | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 see | obj |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 see | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | the messenger at last | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | the Emperor | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | disappear | would | Princess | sight | in preference | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | obey | gerund | Princess not said here | Emperor's order | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make up | past | Emperor | Emperor's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see | infinitive | Emperor not said here | Princess | Emperor obj | tree rules | |||
| 8 | order | Emperor | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | mind | Emperor | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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