The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 18
The wicked queen was now happy; her son was the Rajah, and she wielded all the authority.
Who acts: wicked queen, son, Zaïda · What happens: be, wield · To what, where: Rajah, authority
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 (wicked queen, son, Zaïda), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 queen | amod |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 Rajah | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Rajah | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Rajah | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rajah | det |
| 12 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wielded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wielded | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wielded | nsubj |
| 16 | wielded | wield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 authority | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 authority | det |
| 19 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wielded | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the wicked queen | now | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Zaïda's son | the Rajah | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wield | past | Zaïda | all authority | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Theme |
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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