The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 120
When Varna was three years old the Rajah married a princess of great beauty, but who was hard-hearted and cruel.
Who acts: Varna, old Rajah · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: princess
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 (Varna, old Rajah), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 old | mark |
| 2 | Varna | Varna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 old | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Rajah | amod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rajah | det |
| 8 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 married | nsubj |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 beauty | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beauty | amod |
| 14 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 princess | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hearted | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 hearted | cc |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 hearted | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hearted | cop |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hearted | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 hard | punct |
| 21 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 married | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cruel | cc |
| 23 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hearted | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Varna | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | marry | past | the old Rajah | a princess of great beauty | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | who nsubj; hearted property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | 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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