The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 67
Thousands of years ago, when China was peopled by giants, that country was ruled by a great Empress named Janqwi, who came to the throne when her brother, Emperor Fugi, died.
Who acts: giants, great Empress, Janqwi, brother · What happens: people, rule, name, come, die · To what, where: China, country, great Empress, throne
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 (giants, great Empress, Janqwi, 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 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 peopled | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 years | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 peopled | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 peopled | advmod |
| 7 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 peopled | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 peopled | aux:pass |
| 9 | peopled | people | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 giants | case |
| 11 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 peopled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ruled | punct |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ruled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ruled | aux:pass |
| 16 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 peopled | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Empress | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Empress | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Empress | amod |
| 20 | Empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ruled | obl |
| 21 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Empress | acl |
| 22 | Janqwi | Janqwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 named | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Janqwi | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 throne | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 throne | det |
| 28 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 died | advmod |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 brother | nmod:poss |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 died | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Emperor | punct |
| 33 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 brother | appos |
| 34 | Fugi | Fugi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Emperor | flat |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 brother | punct |
| 36 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 peopled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | people | past · passive | giants | China | Thousands of years obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rule | past · passive | a great Empress | that country | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | a great Empress not said here | Janqwi xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Janqwi | the throne | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to throne=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | die | past | EMPRESS's brother | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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