The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 86
Now the Empress had seen all of this through the palace window, and she could not help admiring the dexterity of the ambitious Oku, so she divided the leadership of the front army between them, making Oku commander of the left wing and Haki of the right.
Who acts: Empress · What happens: see, not help, admire, divide, make · To what, where: all, palace window, dexterity, leadership, Oku commander
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 (Empress), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 seen | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Empress | det |
| 3 | Empress | Empress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 seen | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 all | nmod |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 window | compound |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 all | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 help | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 help | advmod |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | conj |
| 19 | admiring | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 help | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dexterity | det |
| 21 | dexterity | dexterity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 admiring | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Oku | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Oku | det |
| 24 | ambitious | ambitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Oku | amod |
| 25 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 dexterity | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 divided | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 divided | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 divided | nsubj |
| 29 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 leadership | det |
| 31 | leadership | leadership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 divided | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 army | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 army | det |
| 34 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 army | amod |
| 35 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leadership | nmod |
| 36 | between | between | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 army | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 making | punct |
| 39 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 divided | advcl |
| 40 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 commander | compound |
| 41 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 making | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 wing | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 wing | det |
| 44 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 wing | amod |
| 45 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 commander | nmod |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 Haki | cc |
| 47 | Haki | Haki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 wing | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 right | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 right | det |
| 50 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 Haki | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | the Empress | all of this | the palace window | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | not help | could | EMPRESS | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | admire not said to happen | gerund | EMPRESS not said here | the dexterity of the ambitious Oku | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dexterity=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | divide | past | EMPRESS | the leadership of the front army between Haki | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leadership=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | gerund | EMPRESS not said here | Oku commander of the left wing and Haki of the right | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset commander=Product |
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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