The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 53
It was through her that he was at last enabled to meet his brother, and finally be turned again into human form.
Who acts: comfort, joy · What happens: be, enable, meet, turn · To what, where: brother, human form
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 (comfort, joy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 her | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 her | cop |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 4 her | case |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 enabled | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 enabled | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 enabled | aux |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 10 enabled | mark |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 enabled | amod |
| 10 | enabled | enable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 her | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enabled | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 17 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 19 turned | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 turned | aux:pass |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 enabled | conj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 turned | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 form | case |
| 22 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 form | amod |
| 23 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 her | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | comfort | through queen | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enable | past · passive | joy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | joy not said here | joy's brother | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | turn | infinitive · passive | joy not said here | human form | again | finally property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into form=Trajectory |
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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