The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 28
His love for the princess was so sincere and ardent that he could scarcely support with patience the mortification of seeing her marry Prince Ali, who, he said, did not deserve her better nor love her more than himself.
Who acts: love, Prince, mortification, Ali · What happens: be, support, see, marry, say, not deserve · To what, where: mortification, Ali · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, Prince, mortification, Ali), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 love | nmod:poss |
| 2 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sincere | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 love | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sincere | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 sincere | advmod |
| 8 | sincere | sincere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ardent | cc |
| 10 | ardent | ardent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sincere | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 support | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 support | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 support | aux |
| 14 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 15 support | advmod |
| 15 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sincere | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 patience | case |
| 17 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 support | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mortification | det |
| 19 | mortification | mortification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 marry | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 seeing | mark |
| 21 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 mortification | acl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seeing | obj |
| 23 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 patience | acl:relcl |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 marry | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 said | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 who | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Ali | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 deserve | punct |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 deserve | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 deserve | advmod |
| 34 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | ccomp |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 better | nmod:poss |
| 36 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 deserve | xcomp |
| 37 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 38 love | cc |
| 38 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 deserve | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 love | obj |
| 40 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 love | advmod |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 himself | case |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 more | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sincere | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince's love for the princess | sincere property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Prince's love for the princess not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | support | could | Prince | with patience; scarcely property | vn help-72.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent with patience=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | the mortification not said here | mortification | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | marry | infinitive | the mortification | Ali Prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ali=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Ali Prince | Prince nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | not deserve | past · do-support | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | love | present | mortification | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | love | Prince | for the princess | nom love «feeling 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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