The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 3
The Emperor banished the real bird from the kingdom, and the artificial one was put on a golden perch by the side of his bed, and was given the title of Imperial Nightsinger.
Who acts: Emperor, side · What happens: banish, put, give, title · To what, where: real bird, kingdom, artificial one, golden perch, title, Imperial
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, side), 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 | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 banished | nsubj |
| 3 | banished | banish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 banished | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 banished | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux:pass |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 banished | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 perch | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 perch | det |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 perch | amod |
| 20 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bed | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bed | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 given | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 given | cc |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 given | aux:pass |
| 30 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 banished | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 title | det |
| 32 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 given | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Imperial | case |
| 34 | Imperial | Imperial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 title | nmod |
| 35 | Nightsinger | Nightsinger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Imperial | flat |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 banished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banish | past | the Emperor | the real bird | the kingdom | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bird=Theme from kingdom=Source | |||
| 2 | put | past · passive | the side of Emperor's bed | the artificial one | a golden perch | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on perch=Destination | |||
| 3 | give | past · passive | the title of Imperial | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: title=Theme | |||||
| 4 | title | Imperial | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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