The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 72
The two attendants, after they had told the sorceress how glad they were that she was cured so soon, walked before her, and conducted her through several apartments, all more superb than that wherein she had lain, into a large hall, the most richly and magnificently furnished of all the palace.
Who acts: two attendants · What happens: tell, cure, walk, conduct, lie, furnish · To what, where: attendants, sorceress, several apartments, large hall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two attendants), 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 | 3 attendants | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 attendants | nummod |
| 3 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 told | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 attendants | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sorceress | det |
| 10 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 glad | advmod |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 told | ccomp |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cured | aux:pass |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 cured | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cured | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cured | aux:pass |
| 18 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 glad | conj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 cured | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 attendants | punct |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 walked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 conducted | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 conducted | cc |
| 27 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 walked | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 conducted | obj |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 apartments | case |
| 30 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 apartments | amod |
| 31 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 conducted | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 superb | punct |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 35 superb | advmod |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 superb | advmod |
| 35 | superb | superb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 walked | parataxis |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 that | case |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 superb | obl |
| 38 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 lain | advmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 lain | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 lain | aux |
| 41 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 superb | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 hall | punct |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 hall | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 hall | det |
| 45 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 hall | amod |
| 46 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 lain | appos |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 richly | punct |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 richly | det |
| 49 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 50 richly | advmod |
| 50 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 53 furnished | advmod |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 magnificently | cc |
| 52 | magnificently | magnificently | ADV | _ | 50 richly | conj |
| 53 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 hall | acl:relcl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 palace | case |
| 55 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 57 palace | det:predet |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 palace | det |
| 57 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 furnished | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the two attendants not said here | attendants = attendant | the sorceress | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient sorceress=Topic | |||
| 2 | cure | past · passive | attendants = attendant | sorceress nsubj; soon property | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | the two attendants | before sorceress | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | conduct | past | the two attendants not said here | sorceress | several apartments | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme through apartment=Destination | |||
| 5 | lie | past · perfect · passive | sorceress | a large hall appos; wherein property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | furnish | participle | a large hall not said here | of all palace; richly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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