The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 70
I saw her in bed, surrounded by her women, all weeping and seeming to expect her death.
Who acts: I, princess · What happens: see, surround, weep, seem, expect, die · To what, where: princess, bed, death
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 (I, princess), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surrounded | punct |
| 7 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 women | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 women | nmod:poss |
| 10 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 weeping | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 weeping | advmod |
| 13 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seeming | cc |
| 15 | seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 weeping | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 expect | mark |
| 17 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seeming | xcomp |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 death | nmod:poss |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 expect | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | princess | bed | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | surround | participle | I not said here | princess's women obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | seem | gerund | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 5 | expect | to-infinitive | princess's death | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme | |||||
| 6 | die | princess | nom death «event 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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