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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 31

The cries guided him to the mouth of the pit and there he was promised a great sum of money by the Prime Minister if he would rescue him from his perilous position.

Who acts: cries, Prime Minister, man · What happens: guide, promise, rescue, sum · To what, where: man, mouth, noise, perilous position, money

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cries, Prime Minister, man), 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

detnsubjobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodccexplnsubjaux:passconjdetamodobjcasenmodcasedetcompoundoblmarknsubjauxadvclobjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctrootTheDETcriesNOUNguidedVERBhimPRONtoADPtheDETmouthNOUNofADPtheDETpitNOUNandCCONJtherePRONhePRONwasAUXpromisedVERBaDETgreatADJsumNOUNofADPmoneyNOUNbyADPtheDETPrimePROPNMinisterPROPNifSCONJhePRONwouldAUXrescueVERBhimPRONfromADPhisPRONperilousADJpositionNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 criesdet
2criescryNOUNNumber=Plur3 guidednsubj
3guidedguideVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 guidedobj
5totoADP_7 mouthcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 mouthdet
7mouthmouthNOUNNumber=Sing3 guidedobl
8ofofADP_10 pitcase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 pitdet
10pitpitNOUNNumber=Sing7 mouthnmod
11andandCCONJ_15 promisedcc
12theretherePRONPronType=Dem15 promisedexpl
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 promisednsubj
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 promisedaux:pass
15promisedpromiseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 guidedconj
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 sumdet
17greatgreatADJDegree=Pos18 sumamod
18sumsumNOUNNumber=Sing15 promisedobj
19ofofADP_20 moneycase
20moneymoneyNOUNNumber=Sing18 sumnmod
21bybyADP_24 Ministercase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 Ministerdet
23PrimePrimePROPN_24 Ministercompound
24MinisterMinisterPROPNNumber=Sing15 promisedobl
25ififSCONJ_28 rescuemark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 rescuensubj
27wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 rescueaux
28rescuerescueVERBVerbForm=Inf15 promisedadvcl
29himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 rescueobj
30fromfromADP_33 positioncase
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 positionnmod:poss
32perilousperilousADJDegree=Pos33 positionamod
33positionpositionNOUNNumber=Sing28 rescueobl
34..PUNCT_3 guidedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1guidepastthe criesmanthe mouth of the pitvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to mouth=Destination
2promise speech: promisepast · passivethe Prime Ministermantherea great sum of money objvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal sum=Theme
3rescue a condition, not said to happenwouldmannoiseman's perilous positionvn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from position=Source
4summoneynom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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