The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 55
Hastening to her son she said that some ill-disposed subjects were plotting to dethrone him, and that they had set up an impostor who they declared to be Prince Varna.
Who acts: queen, disposed subjects, impostor · What happens: hasten, say, dispose, plot, dethrone, set up · To what, where: son, subjects, Varna · 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 (queen, disposed subjects, impostor), 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 | Hastening | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 said | ccomp |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 son | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hastening | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 plotting | mark |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 subjects | det |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 disposed | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ill | punct |
| 11 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 subjects | amod |
| 12 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 plotting | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 plotting | aux |
| 14 | plotting | plot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dethrone | mark |
| 16 | dethrone | dethrone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 plotting | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dethrone | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 set | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 set | aux |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 impostor | det |
| 26 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 declared | nsubj |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 declared | nsubj |
| 29 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 impostor | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 Varna | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 Varna | cop |
| 32 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Varna | nmod:desc |
| 33 | Varna | Varna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 declared | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | gerund | to queen's son result | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to son=Result | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | dispose | participle | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | plot | past · progressive | some disposed subjects | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | dethrone | to-infinitive | some disposed subjects not said here | son | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | set up | past · perfect · passive | subjects = subject | a impostor obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme impostor=Destination | ||||
| 7 | declare speech: other | past | a impostor | subjects = subject nsubj | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | is a | to-infinitive | a impostor not said here | Varna | Prince nmod:desc | tree rules |
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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