The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 28
The Empress hastened to the scene of the disaster, and found that considerable damage had been done to both Heaven and earth.
Who acts: Empress · What happens: hasten, find, do · To what, where: Empress, scene, considerable damage, Heaven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Empress), 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 Empress | det |
| 2 | Empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | nsubj |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Empress | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 scene | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 scene | det |
| 6 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hastened | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 disaster | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 disaster | det |
| 9 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scene | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 done | mark |
| 14 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 damage | amod |
| 15 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 done | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 done | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 done | aux:pass |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 found | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Heaven | case |
| 20 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 21 Heaven | cc:preconj |
| 21 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 done | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 earth | cc |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Heaven | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the Empress not said here | the scene of the disaster | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to scene=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the Empress | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · passive | considerable damage | Heaven and earth | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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