The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 85
He made the wise man swear not to tell the matter to anyone, gave him a splendid robe, and dismissed him.
Who acts: Selim, wise man · What happens: make, swear, not tell, give, dismiss · To what, where: wise man, matter, splendid robe, Selim · 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 (Selim, wise man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | xcomp |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 tell | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 swear | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 anyone | case |
| 13 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 tell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 robe | det |
| 18 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 robe | amod |
| 19 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dismissed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dismissed | cc |
| 22 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dismissed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Selim | the wise man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swear | infinitive | the wise man not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the wise man not said here | the matter | to anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Topic to anyone=Recipient | |||
| 4 | give | past | Selim not said here | a splendid robe | Selim | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient robe=Theme | |||
| 5 | dismiss | past | Selim not said here | Selim | vn banish-10.2 «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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