The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 6
They wrote letters and verses to the Princess, telling her of the great love for her which prevented them from returning to their own homes, and even from taking rest and sleep.
Who acts: knights · What happens: write, tell, prevent, return, take · To what, where: letters, Princess, knights, rest · 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 (knights), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wrote | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 verses | cc |
| 5 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 letters | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Princess | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrote | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 telling | punct |
| 10 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wrote | advcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 telling | iobj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 love | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 love | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 love | amod |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 telling | obl |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 prevented | mark |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 prevented | nmod:poss |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 prevented | nsubj |
| 19 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 telling | ccomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 prevented | obj |
| 21 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 22 returning | mark |
| 22 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 prevented | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 homes | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 homes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 homes | amod |
| 26 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 returning | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 taking | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 taking | cc |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 taking | advmod |
| 30 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 31 taking | mark |
| 31 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wrote | advcl |
| 32 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 taking | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sleep | cc |
| 34 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rest | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | knights = knight | letters and verses | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to princess=Recipient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | knights = knight not said here | Princess | of the great love | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | prevent | past | knights = knight | Princess nmod:poss; which nsubj | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | gerund | to knights's own homes result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | |||||
| 5 | take | gerund | knights = knight not said here | rest and sleep | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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