The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 44

On the way here I was detained by another lion, who made me promise to return to him when I shall have told your Majesty that he awaits you.”

Who acts: lion, me, HARE · What happens: detain, make, promise, return, tell, await · To what, where: I, way, me, HARE, Majesty, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, me, HARE), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 detained	obl
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 way	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 detained	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 detained	aux:pass
7	detained	detain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 lion	case
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 lion	det
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 detained	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lion	acl:relcl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 made	obj
15	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 made	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 return	mark
17	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 promise	xcomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 return	obl
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 told	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj:pass
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 told	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 told	aux
24	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 return	advcl
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 Majesty	nmod:poss
26	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	iobj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 awaits	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 awaits	nsubj
29	awaits	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 told	advcl
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 awaits	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 detained	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 detained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	detain	past · passive	another lion	I		the way	vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	make	past	another lion	me			tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	infinitive	me not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here		HARE		vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result
5	tell speech: assert	shall · perfect · passive		I	your Majesty		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient majesty=Topic
6	await	present	HARE	you			tree rules

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 44

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 44