The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 42
Early the next morning Guido went to the palace, but to his surprise the Prime Minister not only denied all knowledge of him, but had him beaten for his presumption, and this so severely that the porter who carried out his orders left him half dead.
Who acts: next morning, Guido, porter, this · What happens: go, not deny, have, beat, carry out, leave · To what, where: palace, Prime Minister, Guido, orders
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 (next morning, Guido, porter, this), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 5 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 denied | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 denied | cc |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 surprise | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 14 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 denied | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Minister | det |
| 16 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 17 Minister | compound |
| 17 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 denied | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 denied | advmod |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 denied | advmod |
| 20 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | conj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 knowledge | det |
| 22 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 denied | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knowledge | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | obj |
| 29 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 had | xcomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 presumption | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 presumption | nmod:poss |
| 32 | presumption | presumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 beaten | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 left | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 left | cc |
| 35 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 left | nsubj |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 severely | advmod |
| 37 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 46 left | advmod |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 left | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 porter | det |
| 40 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 left | nsubj |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 carried | nsubj |
| 42 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 porter | acl:relcl |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 carried | compound:prt |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 orders | nmod:poss |
| 45 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 carried | obj |
| 46 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 left | obj |
| 48 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 49 dead | advmod |
| 49 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 left | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the next morning | the palace | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not deny | participle · passive | the Prime Minister | to Guido's surprise; all knowledge of Guido obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme knowledge=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the next morning not said here | Guido | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beat | participle | Guido not said here | for Guido's presumption | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | carry out | past | the porter | Guido's orders | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | leave | past | this | Guido | the porter nsubj; severely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 7 | surprise | Guido | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | presume | Guido | nom presumption «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | order | Guido | nom order «communication 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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