The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 60
Guido had no desire to part with the stone, and the Emperor, noticing his unwillingness to sell it, threatened him with banishment from the kingdom if he refused.
Who acts: Guido, Emperor · What happens: have, notice, sell, threaten, refuse · To what, where: desire, unwillingness, stone, Guido, kingdom
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 (Guido, 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 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 desire | det |
| 4 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 part | mark |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 desire | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 noticing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 noticing | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Emperor | det |
| 13 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 noticing | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 noticing | punct |
| 15 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 had | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 unwillingness | nmod:poss |
| 17 | unwillingness | unwillingness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 noticing | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sell | mark |
| 19 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 noticing | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sell | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 threatened | punct |
| 22 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 threatened | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 banishment | case |
| 25 | banishment | banishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threatened | obl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 kingdom | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 kingdom | det |
| 28 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threatened | obl |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 refused | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 refused | nsubj |
| 31 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 threatened | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Guido | no desire part with the stone | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 2 | notice | gerund | the Emperor | Guido's unwillingness | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer unwillingness=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sell | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | stone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | threaten | past | Guido not said here | Guido | the kingdom | with banishment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||
| 5 | refuse a condition, not said to happen | past | Guido | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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