The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 33
The captive again promised him a large reward, so Guido went back to the city, and returned with a long cord, which he let down into the pit, telling the great man to bind it around his waist, and he would then pull him out.
Who acts: captive, Guido, man · What happens: promise, go back, return, let down, tell, bind · To what, where: large reward, man, long cord, pit, great man, reward · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (captive, Guido, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captive | det |
| 2 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 captive | advmod |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 reward | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reward | amod |
| 8 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 promised | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 city | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 returned | cc |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 cord | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cord | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cord | amod |
| 23 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 let | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 let | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 let | nsubj |
| 27 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 cord | acl:relcl |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 let | compound:prt |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 pit | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pit | det |
| 31 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 let | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 telling | punct |
| 33 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 let | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 man | det |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 man | amod |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 telling | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 bind | mark |
| 38 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 telling | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 bind | obj |
| 40 | around | around | ADP | _ | 42 waist | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 waist | nmod:poss |
| 42 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bind | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 pull | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 pull | cc |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 pull | nsubj |
| 46 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 pull | aux |
| 47 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 pull | advmod |
| 48 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | parataxis |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 pull | obj |
| 50 | out | out | ADP | _ | 48 pull | compound:prt |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the captive | a large reward | man | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal reward=Theme | |||
| 2 | go back | past | Guido | to the city result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the captive not said here | with a long cord | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let down | past | Guido | a long cord | the pit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Guido not said here | the great man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | bind | to-infinitive | Guido not said here | reward | man's waist | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 7 | pull out | would | man | Guido | then | tree rules |
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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