The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 72
But Janqwi was too clever for him, and she mounted the throne which was rightly hers.
Who acts: Janqwi, opportunity, throne · What happens: be, mount · To what, where: Fugi
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 (Janqwi, opportunity, throne), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 clever | cc |
| 2 | Janqwi | Janqwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 clever | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 clever | advmod |
| 5 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 clever | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mounted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mounted | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mounted | nsubj |
| 11 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clever | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 throne | det |
| 13 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hers | nsubj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hers | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hers | cop |
| 16 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 17 hers | advmod |
| 17 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mounted | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Janqwi | for man; clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mount | past | opportunity | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the throne | Fugi | which nsubj; rightly property | 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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