The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 153
In the center of the great hall, in which was the Emperor’s throne, was a golden perch, put there for the Nightingale.
What happens: be, put · To what, where: throne, center, golden perch
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 center | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 center | det |
| 3 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 perch | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hall | amod |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 center | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 throne | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 throne | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 throne | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Emperor | det |
| 13 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 throne | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Emperor | case |
| 15 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 center | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 center | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 perch | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 perch | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 perch | amod |
| 20 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 perch | parataxis |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 put | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Nightingale | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Nightingale | det |
| 26 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 perch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Emperor's throne | the center of the great hall and the Emperor's throne | the Emperor nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a golden perch | the center of the great hall and the Emperor's throne | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | there | for the Nightingale | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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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