The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 126

This discovery caused him great grief—not from any disappointment of his own plans for his niece, but from the discord which this mutual passion for their cousin would cause to his sons.

Who acts: discovery, mutual passion, sultan · What happens: cause, disappoint, plan · To what, where: great grief, sultan, discord, own plans

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 (discovery, mutual passion, sultan), 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 discovery	det
2	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caused	iobj
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grief	amod
6	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obj
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 disappointment	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 disappointment	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 disappointment	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 disappointment	det
11	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grief	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 plans	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 plans	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 plans	amod
15	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 disappointment	nmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 niece	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 niece	nmod:poss
18	niece	niece	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plans	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cause	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 cause	cc
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 discord	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 discord	det
23	discord	discord	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cause	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 cause	obj
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 passion	det
26	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 passion	amod
27	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cause	nsubj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 cousin	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 cousin	nmod:poss
30	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 passion	nmod
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 cause	aux
32	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caused	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 sons	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 sons	nmod:poss
35	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 cause	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	cause	past	this discovery	great grief	sultan			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer he=Theme grief=Eventuality
2	cause	would	this mutual passion for plans's cousin			the discord	to sultan's sons; which obj	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition which=Patient
3	disappoint			sultan's own plans for sultan's niece				nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: of=patient
4	plan		sultan				for sultan's niece	nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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 10, sentence 126

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 126