The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 63
The new Rajah and the lovely Zaïda were soon married, and to their great joy the good queen herself attended the wedding.
Who acts: good queen, plans · What happens: marry, attend, joy · To what, where: new Rajah, wedding
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 (good queen, plans), 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 Rajah | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rajah | amod |
| 3 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 married | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Zaïda | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Zaïda | det |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Zaïda | amod |
| 7 | Zaïda | Zaïda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rajah | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 married | aux:pass |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 married | advmod |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 attended | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 attended | cc |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 joy | nmod:poss |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 joy | amod |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attended | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 queen | amod |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attended | nsubj |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 queen | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 married | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wedding | det |
| 23 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attended | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the new Rajah and the lovely Zaïda | soon property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | attend | past | the good queen queen | the wedding | to plans's great joy | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wedding=Goal | |||
| 3 | joy | plans = plan | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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