The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 21
Next day he sent a vast quantity of jewels by Mobarec, who conducted the bride home, where the wedding was celebrated with all the pomp that became Zeyn’s rank and dignity.
Who acts: contract, pomp · What happens: send, conduct, celebrate, become · To what, where: vast quantity, bride, wedding, rank
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 (contract, pomp), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 quantity | det |
| 6 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 quantity | amod |
| 7 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 jewels | case |
| 9 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 quantity | nmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Mobarec | case |
| 11 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 conducted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 conducted | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 conducted | nsubj |
| 14 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bride | det |
| 16 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 conducted | obj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 conducted | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 celebrated | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 celebrated | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wedding | det |
| 21 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 23 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 conducted | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 pomp | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 pomp | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pomp | det |
| 27 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 celebrated | obl |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 became | nsubj |
| 29 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 pomp | acl:relcl |
| 30 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 rank | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Zeyn | case |
| 32 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 became | xcomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 dignity | cc |
| 34 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 rank | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | contract | a vast quantity of jewels | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme | |||
| 2 | conduct | past | the bride | by Mobarec; who nsubj; home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bride=Theme by mobarec=Destination | ||||
| 3 | celebrate | past · passive | the wedding | with all pomp | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | past | all pomp | Zeyn's rank and dignity | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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