The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 165
Some time after this the Emperor received a large parcel on which was written “The Nightingale.”
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: receive, write · To what, where: large parcel
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 (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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 received | nsubj |
| 7 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 parcel | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 parcel | amod |
| 10 | parcel | parcel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 written | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 written | aux:pass |
| 14 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 parcel | acl:relcl |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Nightingale | punct |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Nightingale | det |
| 17 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 written | appos |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 Nightingale | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Nightingale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the Emperor | a large parcel | time | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parcel=Theme | |||
| 2 | write | past · passive | a large parcel | the Nightingale appos | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=Destination |
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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