The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 73
This story was used by King Richard the Lion Hearted of England in reproving such nobles and princes as refused to engage in the Crusades, thus showing their ingratitude to God.
Who acts: King Richard · What happens: use, reprove, refuse, not engage, show · To what, where: story, such nobles, Crusades, ingratitude, God
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 (King Richard), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Richard | case |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Richard | compound |
| 7 | Richard | Richard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hearted | det |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hearted | compound |
| 10 | Hearted | Hearted | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Richard | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 England | case |
| 12 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Hearted | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 reproving | mark |
| 14 | reproving | reprove | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 used | advcl |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nobles | amod |
| 16 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 reproving | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 princes | cc |
| 18 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 nobles | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 refused | mark |
| 20 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 reproving | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 engage | mark |
| 22 | engage | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 refused | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Crusades | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Crusades | det |
| 25 | Crusades | Crusade | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 engage | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 showing | punct |
| 27 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 28 showing | advmod |
| 28 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 reproving | conj |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 ingratitude | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ingratitude | ingratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 showing | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 God | case |
| 32 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ingratitude | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | King Richard | this story | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reprove | gerund | King Richard not said here | such nobles and princes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | refuse | participle | King Richard not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not engage | to-infinitive | King Richard not said here | in the Crusades goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in crusade=Goal | ||||
| 5 | show | gerund | King Richard not said here | Crusades's ingratitude | God | thus property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ingratitude=Topic to god=Recipient |
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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