The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 28
But the worthy Pigeon-king bade him to release the others first, and leave him until the last.
Who acts: worthy Pigeon king bade · What happens: release, leave · To what, where: others, bade
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worthy Pigeon king bade), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 release | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bade | det |
| 3 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bade | amod |
| 4 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Pigeon | punct |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bade | compound |
| 7 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 release | nsubj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 release | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 release | mark |
| 10 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 others | det |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 release | obj |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 release | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leave | cc |
| 16 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 release | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leave | obj |
| 18 | until | until | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 last | det |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leave | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 release | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | to-infinitive | the worthy Pigeon king bade | the others | bade nsubj; first property | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer other=Source | |||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | the worthy Pigeon king bade not said here | bade | until the last | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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