The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 65
Varna insisted that his noble brother share the throne with him, and no ruler was ever more beloved by faithful and loyal subjects than was each of these.
Who acts: Varna, noble brother, faithful subjects · What happens: insist, share, belov · To what, where: throne, ruler
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 (Varna, noble brother, faithful subjects), 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 | Varna | Varna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 insisted | nsubj |
| 2 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 share | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 share | nsubj |
| 7 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 insisted | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 share | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 share | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beloved | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beloved | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 ruler | det |
| 15 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 beloved | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 beloved | aux:pass |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 beloved | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 beloved | advmod |
| 19 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 insisted | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 subjects | case |
| 21 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 subjects | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 loyal | cc |
| 23 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 faithful | conj |
| 24 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 beloved | obl |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 each | case |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 each | cop |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 subjects | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 these | case |
| 29 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 each | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 insisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other | past | Varna | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | share | infinitive | Varna's noble brother | the throne | with Varna | tree rules | |||
| 3 | belov | past · passive | faithful subjects than each of these | no ruler | ever | 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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