The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 16
The queen desired her son to conduct her to the wonderful underground place, which the late sultan her husband had made with such secrecy that she had never heard of it.
Who acts: queen · What happens: desire, conduct, make, not hear · To what, where: son, queen, wonderful underground place, late sultan
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 desired | nsubj |
| 3 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 desired | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 conduct | mark |
| 7 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 desired | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 conduct | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 11 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 12 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 place | amod |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conduct | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 made | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sultan | det |
| 17 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sultan | amod |
| 18 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 secrecy | case |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 secrecy | amod |
| 25 | secrecy | secrecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 heard | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 heard | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 heard | aux |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 heard | advmod |
| 30 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 made | advcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 heard | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | the queen | queen's son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot son=Theme | ||||
| 2 | conduct | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | queen | the wonderful underground place | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | the late sultan | with such secrecy; the wonderful underground place obj; queen's husband nsubj:pass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Product | ||||
| 4 | not hear | past · perfect | queen | of secrecy | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
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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