The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 63
Then they went to the temple of the Goddess Durga, and having paid their devotions and asked the favor of the deity on behalf of the King, Vira-vara struck off the head of his son, and laid it as an offering upon the shrine.
Who acts: words, Vira vara · What happens: go, pay, ask, strike off, lay, devote · To what, where: temple, devotions, favor, head, vara, deity
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 (words, Vira vara), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 temple | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 temple | det |
| 6 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Durga | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Durga | det |
| 9 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Durga | compound |
| 10 | Durga | Durga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 temple | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 paid | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 paid | cc |
| 13 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 paid | aux |
| 14 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 devotions | nmod:poss |
| 16 | devotions | devotion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 paid | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 favor | det |
| 20 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 deity | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 deity | det |
| 23 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 favor | nmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 behalf | case |
| 25 | behalf | behalf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deity | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 King | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 behalf | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 vara | punct |
| 30 | Vira | Vira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 vara | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 vara | punct |
| 32 | vara | vara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 King | appos |
| 33 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 vara | acl |
| 34 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 head | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 head | det |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 struck | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 son | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 son | nmod:poss |
| 39 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 head | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 laid | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 laid | cc |
| 42 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 laid | obj |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 offering | case |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 offering | det |
| 46 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 laid | obl |
| 47 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 49 shrine | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 shrine | det |
| 49 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 offering | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | words = word | the temple of the Goddess Durga | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pay | gerund · perfect | words = word not said here | words's devotions | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devotion=Asset | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | words = word not said here | the favor of the deity on behalf of the King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favor=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | strike off | participle | Vira vara not said here | the head of King's son | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 5 | lay | past | words = word not said here | vara | as a offering upon the shrine | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Result as offering=Attribute | |||
| 6 | devote | words = word | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | favor | the deity on behalf of the King | nom favor «act 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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