The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 114

These books were read by many people all over the world, and at last some of them reached the Emperor, who sat in his chair of solid jade and read and read and read.

Who acts: many people, some, Emperor · What happens: read, reach, sit · To what, where: books, world, Emperor, last, chair

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many people, some, Emperor), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 books	det
2	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux:pass
4	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obl
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 world	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 read	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reached	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 reached	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 reached	obl
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 reached	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 some	nmod
19	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 read	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Emperor	det
21	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 reached	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sat	nsubj
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Emperor	acl:relcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 chair	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 chair	nmod:poss
27	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 jade	case
29	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 jade	amod
30	jade	jade	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chair	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 read	cc
32	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sat	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 read	cc
34	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 read	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 read	cc
36	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 read	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	read	past · passive	many people	this books	the world	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
2	reach	past	some of people	the Emperor	last	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme at last=Asset
3	sit	past	the Emperor		BOOK's chair of solid jade	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
4	read	infinitive	the Emperor not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	read	infinitive	the Emperor not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	read	infinitive	the Emperor not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 1, sentence 114

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 114