The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 21
One day, about three years after the supposed death of Prince Varna, the young Rajah was out hunting, a sport of which he was very fond.
Who acts: Varna · What happens: suppose, hunt, be, die
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 (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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hunting | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 years | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 three | advmod |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 day | conj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 death | det |
| 9 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 death | amod |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 years | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Varna | case |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Varna | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Varna | Varna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 death | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Rajah | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Rajah | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Rajah | amod |
| 17 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Varna | conj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hunting | aux |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 was | compound:prt |
| 20 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sport | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sport | det |
| 23 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hunting | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 fond | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fond | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 fond | cop |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 fond | advmod |
| 29 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sport | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 hunting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hunt | past · progressive | day | a sport conj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Varna | of a sport; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | Varna Prince and the young Rajah | nom death «event 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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