The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 117
There was once a Rajah whose wife died, leaving to her husband a little son, who was a great comfort to his grief-stricken father.
Who acts: Rajah, little son · What happens: be, die, leave · To what, where: little son, husband, great comfort
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rajah, little son), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Rajah | det |
| 5 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaving | punct |
| 10 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 died | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 husband | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaving | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 son | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 son | amod |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaving | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 comfort | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 comfort | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 comfort | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 comfort | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 comfort | amod |
| 22 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | appos |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 father | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stricken | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 grief | punct |
| 27 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 father | amod |
| 28 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comfort | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | past | a Rajah | wife nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | a Rajah not said here | a little son | wife's husband | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Theme to husband=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a | past | a little son | a great comfort | to Rajah's stricken father | tree rules |
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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