The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 25
The building in which they proposed to pass the night had apparently been formerly a castle.
Who acts: Chasid, night · What happens: propose, pass, have, be · To what, where: building, castle
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 (Chasid, night), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 building | det |
| 2 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 proposed | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 proposed | nsubj |
| 6 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 building | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pass | mark |
| 8 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 proposed | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pass | obj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 night | acl |
| 12 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 16 castle | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 castle | cop |
| 14 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 16 castle | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 building | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past | Chasid | the building | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | Chasid not said here | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the night not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | participle | a castle | apparently, formerly 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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