The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 121
In the course of time a second prince was born, and the queen was filled with jealous rage at the thought that Varna, and not her own son, was heir to the throne.
What happens: bear, fill, be · To what, where: second prince, course, queen, thought, Varna heir
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 course | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 course | det |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 born | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 born | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 prince | amod |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 born | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 born | aux:pass |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 filled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 filled | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 filled | aux:pass |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 born | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 rage | case |
| 18 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rage | amod |
| 19 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 thought | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thought | det |
| 22 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 filled | obl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 heir | mark |
| 24 | Varna | Varna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 heir | compound |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 son | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 son | cc |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 son | advmod |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 son | nmod:poss |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 son | amod |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Varna | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Varna | punct |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 heir | cop |
| 33 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thought | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 throne | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 throne | det |
| 36 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 heir | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | a second prince | the course | time | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | the queen | the thought | with jealous rage | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with rage=Instrument | |||
| 3 | is a | past | Varna heir | to the throne | 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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