The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 70
Even the beasts of the forest rendered him good for the help he gave them, but you returned only evil for good.
Who acts: beasts, Guido, you · What happens: render, give, return · To what, where: Guido, help, beasts
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 (beasts, Guido, you), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 beasts | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beasts | det |
| 3 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rendered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beasts | nmod |
| 7 | rendered | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rendered | obj |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rendered | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 help | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 help | det |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rendered | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 returned | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rendered | conj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 evil | advmod |
| 21 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 returned | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 good | case |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 evil | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rendered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | render | past | the beasts of the forest | Guido | for the help; good property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | Guido | the help not said here | beasts = beast | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | past | you | evil property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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