The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 46
So he ordered Jofuku, a courtier in whom he placed great confidence, to set out for the land of Horazai, and to bring back with him a phial of this magic fluid.
Who acts: plenty · What happens: order, place, set out, bring back · To what, where: Jofuku, great confidence, phial
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 (plenty), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Jofuku | Jofuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 courtier | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 courtier | det |
| 7 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Jofuku | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 whom | case |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 courtier | nmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 placed | nsubj |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 whom | acl:relcl |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 confidence | amod |
| 13 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 set | mark |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Horazai | case |
| 22 | Horazai | Horazai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 land | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bring | cc |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 bring | mark |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 set | conj |
| 27 | back | back | ADV | _ | 26 bring | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | obl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 phial | det |
| 31 | phial | phial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 fluid | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 fluid | det |
| 34 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 fluid | amod |
| 35 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 phial | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | plenty | Jofuku | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jofuku=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | past | plenty | great confidence | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set out | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | for the land of Horazai | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring back | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | a phial of this magic fluid | with plenty | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent phial=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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