The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 81
Except in this circumstance, she was very well satisfied with her success, and posted away to the sultan.
Who acts: Except · What happens: be, post away · To what, where: circumstance, sultan
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 (Except), 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 | Except | Except | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 circumstance | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 circumstance | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 circumstance | det |
| 4 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 satisfied | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 satisfied | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 satisfied | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 well | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 satisfied | advmod |
| 10 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 circumstance | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 success | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 success | nmod:poss |
| 13 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 satisfied | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 posted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 posted | cc |
| 16 | posted | post | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 circumstance | acl:relcl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 posted | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 sultan | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sultan | det |
| 20 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 posted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 circumstance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Except | this circumstance Except not said here | with Except's success; satisfied, well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | post away | participle | this circumstance Except not said here | the sultan | away property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to sultan=Destination |
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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