The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 19
The power that was hers made her harsher and more cruel than ever, and the people soon began to hate her, especially as they believed that it was she who had caused the disappearance of Prince Varna.
Who acts: power, people, Varna · What happens: be, begin, hate, believe, cause, disappear · To what, where: Zaïda · 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 (power, people, Varna), 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 | 2 power | det |
| 2 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 harsher | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 made | obj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | cop |
| 5 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 harsher | cop |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | harsher | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cruel | cc |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 cruel | advmod |
| 11 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 harsher | conj |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 ever | case |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 cruel | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 began | nsubj |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 began | advmod |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 harsher | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 hate | mark |
| 21 | hate | hate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hate | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 believed | punct |
| 24 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 27 believed | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 believed | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 believed | nsubj |
| 27 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hate | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 caused | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 she | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 she | cop |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 caused | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 caused | aux |
| 34 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 believed | ccomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 disappearance | det |
| 36 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 caused | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Varna | case |
| 38 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Varna | nmod:desc |
| 39 | Varna | Varna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 disappearance | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 harsher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the power | harsh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the power not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | begin | past | the people | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | hate | to-infinitive | the people not said here | Zaïda | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | believe | past | people | especially property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | power | Zaïda | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | cause | past · perfect · passive | Zaïda | who nsubj; the disappearance of Varna Prince obj | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme disappearance=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | disappear | Varna Prince | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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