The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 124
This niece, the daughter of a favorite brother who had died young, had been brought up in the palace from her childhood, and was remarkable for her wit and beauty.
Who acts: favorite brother · What happens: die, bring up, be · To what, where: niece, palace
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (favorite brother), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 niece | det |
| 2 | niece | niece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 niece | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 brother | det |
| 8 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 died | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 died | aux |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 brother | acl:relcl |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 died | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 niece | punct |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 brought | aux:pass |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 brought | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 childhood | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 24 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 remarkable | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 remarkable | cc |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 remarkable | cop |
| 28 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brought | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 wit | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wit | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 remarkable | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 beauty | cc |
| 33 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wit | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · perfect | a favorite brother | young property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bring up | past · perfect · passive | this niece and the daughter of a favorite brother | the palace from Nouronnihar's childhood | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | for Nouronnihar's wit and beauty; remarkable property | 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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