The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 1
He spoke to each of them apart, and showed the impossibility of one princess being the wife of three brothers, and the troubles they would create if they persisted in their purpose.
Who acts: He, one princess, troubles · What happens: speak, show, be, create, persist, purpose · To what, where: impossibility, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, one princess, troubles), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 each | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 spoke | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 each | nmod |
| 7 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 showed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 showed | cc |
| 10 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 impossibility | det |
| 12 | impossibility | impossibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 showed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 wife | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 princess | nummod |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wife | nsubj |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 wife | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wife | det |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 impossibility | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 brothers | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 brothers | nummod |
| 21 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wife | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 create | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 create | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 troubles | det |
| 25 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 create | nsubj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 create | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 create | aux |
| 28 | create | create | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 showed | conj |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 persisted | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 persisted | nsubj |
| 31 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 create | ccomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 purpose | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 34 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 persisted | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | He | to each of them; apart property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | past | the impossibility | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent impossibility=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | one princess | of the wife; of three brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | create | would | the troubles | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | persist a condition, not said to happen | past | troubles = trouble | troubles's purpose | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in purpose=Location | ||||
| 6 | purpose | troubles = trouble | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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