The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 34
Having gained admittance to the King’s presence, he bowed and said:
Who acts: King · What happens: have, gain, bow, say · To what, where: gained admittance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bowed | advcl |
| 2 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 admittance | amod |
| 3 | admittance | admittance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 presence | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 King | case |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bowed | nsubj |
| 11 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bowed | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | King not said here | gained admittance | to the King's presence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent admittance=Patient | |||
| 2 | gain | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | bow | past | King | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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