The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 61
The two brothers embraced one another with great affection, and then hastened to the royal palace, where, in the presence of the entire court, the crown was placed upon Varna’s head by his brother himself.
Who acts: two brothers, brother · What happens: embrace, hasten, place · To what, where: one, presence, crown, head
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 (two brothers, brother), 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 | 3 brothers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 embraced | nsubj |
| 4 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 embraced | obj |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 one | fixed |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 affection | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 affection | amod |
| 9 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 embraced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hastened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hastened | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 hastened | advmod |
| 13 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 embraced | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 palace | amod |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hastened | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 where | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 palace | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 presence | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 presence | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 presence | det |
| 23 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hastened | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 court | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 court | det |
| 26 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 court | amod |
| 27 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 presence | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 placed | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 crown | det |
| 30 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 placed | aux:pass |
| 32 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 embraced | conj |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 head | case |
| 34 | Varna | Varna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 head | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Varna | case |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 placed | obl |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 brother | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 brother | nmod:poss |
| 39 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 placed | obl |
| 40 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 placed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | the two brothers | one | with great affection | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | hasten | participle | the two brothers not said here | the presence of the entire court | then | to the royal palace | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination | ||
| 3 | place | past · passive | brother's brother | the crown | Varna's head | brother obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme upon head=Destination |
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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