The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 88
The widow’s son married the orphan girl, while another beautiful woman became the wife of the spirit of the stone.
Who acts: son, beautiful woman · What happens: marry, become · To what, where: orphan girl, wife
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, beautiful woman), 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 | 2 widow | det |
| 2 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 widow | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | nsubj |
| 5 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | orphan | orphan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 married | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 became | mark |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | nsubj |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 married | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wife | det |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 became | xcomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 spirit | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spirit | det |
| 19 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wife | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 stone | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 stone | det |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spirit | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | the widow's son | the orphan girl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | past | another beautiful woman | the wife of the spirit of the stone | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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