The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 84
The Rajah sent for him and asked if he had discovered the cause of the weeping.
Who acts: Rajah · What happens: send, ask, discover, cause · To what, where: cause, weeping
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 (Rajah), 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 Rajah | det |
| 2 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 discovered | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 discovered | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 discovered | aux |
| 11 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cause | det |
| 13 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 discovered | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 weeping | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 weeping | det |
| 16 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cause | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Rajah | for King | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Rajah not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | discover a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Rajah | the cause of the weeping | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | cause | the weeping | nom cause «event 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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