The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 74
When the fifteenth day of the month came, he had a guard of many thousands of warriors stationed all around the house, and also on the roof, for it was his intention to make prisoners of the envoys of the moon, and to prevent the taking away of the Princess, whom the bamboo-cutter and his wife had hidden in an inner room.
Who acts: fifteenth day, news, guard, Princess · What happens: come, have, station, be, make, prevent · To what, where: guard, roof, warriors, house, prisoners, wife
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 (fifteenth day, news, guard, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | fifteenth | fifteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 month | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 month | det |
| 7 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 guard | det |
| 13 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 thousands | case |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thousands | amod |
| 16 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 guard | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 warriors | case |
| 18 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thousands | nmod |
| 19 | stationed | station | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 warriors | acl |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 house | advmod |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stationed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 roof | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 roof | cc |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 roof | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 roof | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 roof | det |
| 29 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 intention | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 intention | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 intention | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 intention | cop |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 intention | nmod:poss |
| 35 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 roof | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 make | mark |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 intention | acl |
| 38 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 make | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 envoys | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 envoys | det |
| 41 | envoys | envoy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 prisoners | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 moon | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 moon | det |
| 44 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 envoys | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 prevent | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 prevent | cc |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 prevent | mark |
| 48 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | conj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 taking | det |
| 50 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 prevent | advcl |
| 51 | away | away | ADV | _ | 50 taking | advmod |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 Princess | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 Princess | det |
| 54 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 taking | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 cutter | punct |
| 56 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 60 cutter | nsubj |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 cutter | det |
| 58 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 cutter | compound |
| 59 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 58 bamboo | punct |
| 60 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 Princess | appos |
| 61 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 hidden | cc |
| 62 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 wife | nmod:poss |
| 63 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 64 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 65 hidden | aux |
| 65 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 prevent | conj |
| 66 | in | in | ADP | _ | 69 room | case |
| 67 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 69 room | det |
| 68 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 69 room | amod |
| 69 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 hidden | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the fifteenth day of the month | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | news | a guard of many thousands of warriors | the roof and news's intention | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient | |||
| 3 | station | participle | warriors not said here | the house | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around house=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | past | guard | for news's intention; news nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | news not said here | prisoners of the envoys of the moon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prisoner=Product | ||||
| 6 | prevent | to-infinitive | news not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 7 | take away | gerund | news not said here | of the Princess; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent of princess=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | cutter | the Princess | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | hide | past · perfect · passive | news's wife | a inner room | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in room=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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