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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 57

He made inquiries and found that Prince Varna was at the house of his former governess, so he went there at once, determined to find out the truth for himself.

Who acts: Rajah, Varna · What happens: make, find, be, go, find out · To what, where: inquiries, house, truth · 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 (Rajah, 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

nsubjobjccconjmarknmod:descnsubjcopcasedetccompcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctadvmodnsubjparataxisadvmodcaseoblpunctconjmarkxcompcompound:prtdetobjcasenmodpunctrootHePRONmadeVERBinquiriesNOUNandCCONJfoundVERBthatSCONJPrincePROPNVarnaPROPNwasAUXatADPtheDEThouseNOUNofADPhisPRONformerADJgovernessNOUN,PUNCTsoADVhePRONwentVERBthereADVatADPonceADV,PUNCTdeterminedADJtoPARTfindVERBoutADPtheDETtruthNOUNforADPhimselfPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 madensubj
2mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3inquiriesinquiryNOUNNumber=Plur2 madeobj
4andandCCONJ_5 foundcc
5foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 madeconj
6thatthatSCONJ_12 housemark
7PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing8 Varnanmod:desc
8VarnaVarnaPROPNNumber=Sing12 housensubj
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 housecop
10atatADP_12 housecase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 housedet
12househouseNOUNNumber=Sing5 foundccomp
13ofofADP_16 governesscase
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 governessnmod:poss
15formerformerADJDegree=Pos16 governessamod
16governessgovernessNOUNNumber=Sing12 housenmod
17,,PUNCT_20 wentpunct
18sosoADV_20 wentadvmod
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 wentnsubj
20wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 madeparataxis
21therethereADVPronType=Dem20 wentadvmod
22atatADP_23 oncecase
23onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult20 wentobl
24,,PUNCT_25 determinedpunct
25determineddeterminedADJDegree=Pos20 wentconj
26totoPART_27 findmark
27findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf25 determinedxcomp
28outoutADP_27 findcompound:prt
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 truthdet
30truthtruthNOUNNumber=Sing27 findobj
31forforADP_32 himselfcase
32himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes30 truthnmod
33..PUNCT_2 madepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makepastRajahinquiriesvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inquiry=Product
2findpastRajah not said herevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3ispastVarna Princethe houseof Rajah's former governesstree rules
4gopastRajahtherevn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
5find outto-infinitiveRajah not said herethe truthfor Rajahvn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic

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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