The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 115
He was very much pleased that so many people who were scholars should write so much about his palace and garden, but he was surprised to find that in each book the Nightingale was spoken of as the finest and most wonderful thing of all.
Who acts: BOOK, many people · What happens: be, write, find, speak · To what, where: scholars, Nightingale, book · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (BOOK, many people), 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 | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 write | mark |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 write | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 scholars | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 scholars | cop |
| 12 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 write | aux |
| 14 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 pleased | advcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 write | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 palace | nmod:poss |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 write | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 garden | cc |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 palace | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 surprised | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 surprised | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 surprised | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 surprised | cop |
| 26 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pleased | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 find | mark |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 surprised | advcl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 spoken | mark |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 book | case |
| 31 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 book | det |
| 32 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spoken | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Nightingale | det |
| 34 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 spoken | aux:pass |
| 36 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 find | ccomp |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 thing | case |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 thing | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 thing | det |
| 40 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 thing | amod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 wonderful | cc |
| 42 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 43 wonderful | advmod |
| 43 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 thing | amod |
| 44 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spoken | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 all | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 thing | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | BOOK | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | many people | scholars | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | write | should | many people | about BOOK's palace and garden | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about palace=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | BOOK | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | BOOK not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | past · passive | the Nightingale | each book | of the finest wonderful thing of all | 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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