The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 66
He told how severely he had been injured by his order, and the benefits he had received from the lion, the monkey, and the serpent.
Who acts: Emperor, order · What happens: tell, injure, receive, order · To what, where: Emperor, benefits · 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 (Emperor, order), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 severely | advmod |
| 4 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 2 told | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 injured | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 injured | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 injured | aux:pass |
| 8 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | ccomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 order | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 order | nmod:poss |
| 11 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 injured | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 received | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 received | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 benefits | det |
| 15 | benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 received | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 received | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 received | aux |
| 18 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | parataxis |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 lion | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lion | det |
| 21 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 received | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 monkey | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 monkey | det |
| 24 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lion | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 serpent | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 serpent | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 serpent | det |
| 28 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lion | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Emperor | severely property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | injure | past · perfect · passive | Emperor's order | Emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | receive | past · perfect · passive | the benefits | from the lion and the monkey and the serpent; Emperor nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from lion=Source | ||||
| 4 | order | Emperor | 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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