The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 85
So the widow’s son went home, and his mother, who had believed him dead, was filled with joy at his coming, and all the people in the town came out to welcome him.
Who acts: son, people · What happens: go, believe, fill, come, come out, welcome · To what, where: mother, SON
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 widow | det |
| 3 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 widow | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 filled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 filled | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 believed | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 believed | aux |
| 15 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 mother | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 believed | obj |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 believed | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mother | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 filled | aux:pass |
| 20 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 joy | case |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | obl |
| 23 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 25 coming | mark |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 coming | nsubj |
| 25 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 filled | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 came | cc |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 people | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 people | det |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 came | nsubj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 town | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 town | det |
| 33 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 people | nmod |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 35 | out | out | ADV | _ | 34 came | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 welcome | mark |
| 37 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 came | advcl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 welcome | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the widow's son | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | past · perfect · passive | SON's mother | SON obj; dead property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | SON's mother | with joy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | SON | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come out | past | all people in the town | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | welcome | to-infinitive | all people in the town not said here | SON | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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