The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 97
What she thus foretold had nearly happened.
What happens: foretell, happen · To what, where: queen
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 foretold | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 foretold | advmod |
| 4 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 7 happened | advmod |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foretell | participle · passive | queen | thus property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | What nsubj; nearly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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