The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 9
The poor Emperor lay all alone in his great bed, and as everyone believed him to be dead the courtiers left him to pay their respects to the new ruler.
Who acts: poor Emperor, everyone, dead courtiers · What happens: lie, believe, be, leave, pay · To what, where: great bed, Emperor, respects · 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 (poor Emperor, everyone, dead courtiers), 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 | 3 Emperor | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Emperor | amod |
| 3 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 alone | advmod |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bed | nmod:poss |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bed | amod |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 believed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 believed | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 believed | mark |
| 14 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 believed | nsubj |
| 15 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 believed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 dead | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 dead | cop |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 courtiers | amod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 courtiers | det |
| 21 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 left | nsubj |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 believed | ccomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 pay | mark |
| 25 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 left | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 respects | nmod:poss |
| 27 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pay | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 ruler | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ruler | det |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ruler | amod |
| 31 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pay | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the poor Emperor | Emperor's great bed | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 2 | believe | past | everyone | Emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | dead property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | the dead courtiers | Emperor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pay | to-infinitive | the dead courtiers not said here | courtiers's respects | to the new ruler | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset |
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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