The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 37
At these words she began to weep bitterly, which moved the prince and Mobarec.
Who acts: Sovereign · What happens: begin, weep, move · To what, where: words, prince
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 (Sovereign), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 began | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 weep | mark |
| 7 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 7 weep | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 moved | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 moved | nsubj |
| 11 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 began | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 moved | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Mobarec | cc |
| 15 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 prince | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Sovereign | this words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | weep | to-infinitive | Sovereign not said here | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | move | past | the prince and Mobarec | which nsubj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme prince=Result |
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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