The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 17
There was nothing else to do, so they sorrowfully went home, and when they told their sad news to the king he was so deeply grieved that he was stricken with a severe sickness from which he never recovered.
Who acts: nothing, moons, king · What happens: be, do, go, tell, not recover · To what, where: sad news, king, severe sickness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, moons, king), 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 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | else | else | ADV | _ | 3 nothing | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 nothing | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 10 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 grieved | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 grieved | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 told | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | nsubj |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 grieved | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 news | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 news | amod |
| 20 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 grieved | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 grieved | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 grieved | advmod |
| 27 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 28 grieved | advmod |
| 28 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 stricken | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stricken | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stricken | cop |
| 32 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 grieved | ccomp |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 sickness | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 sickness | det |
| 35 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 sickness | amod |
| 36 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stricken | obl |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 recovered | obl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 recovered | nsubj |
| 40 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 41 recovered | advmod |
| 41 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 sickness | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | moons = moon | home, sorrowfully property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | moons = moon | moons's sad news | the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Topic to king=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is | past | king | deeply, grieve property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | king | with a severe sickness; stricken property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not recover | past | king | a severe sickness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from which=Source |
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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