The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 60
He therefore sent word to the bamboo-cutter of his intention, forbidding him to say anything about his visit to his foster-daughter.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: send, forbid, say, intend, visit · To what, where: word, bamboo cutter, Emperor, anything, foster daughter · 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 (Emperor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cutter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cutter | det |
| 7 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cutter | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 bamboo | punct |
| 9 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 intention | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 intention | nmod:poss |
| 12 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cutter | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forbidding | punct |
| 14 | forbidding | forbid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sent | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forbidding | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 forbidding | xcomp |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 say | obj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 visit | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 visit | nmod:poss |
| 21 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anything | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 daughter | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 daughter | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 foster | punct |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 say | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Emperor | word | the bamboo cutter of Emperor's intention | therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to cutter=Destination | ||
| 2 | forbid | gerund | Emperor not said here | Emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | anything | Emperor's foster daughter | about Emperor's visit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to daughter=Recipient | ||
| 4 | intend | Emperor | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | visit | Emperor | nom visit «act 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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