The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 29
The problem now was how to repair this damage, so she gathered together the wise men of the kingdom to see what could be done.
Who acts: problem, damage · What happens: be, gather, see, do · To what, where: wise men · 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 (problem, damage), 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 problem | det |
| 2 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 repair | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 repair | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 repair | cop |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 repair | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 repair | mark |
| 7 | repair | repair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 damage | det |
| 9 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 repair | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gathered | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 gathered | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gathered | nsubj |
| 13 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 repair | conj |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 gathered | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gathered | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kingdom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kingdom | det |
| 20 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 men | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gathered | advcl |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 done | obj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 done | aux:pass |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 see | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 repair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the problem | now | this damage obj; repair property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gather | past | damage | the wise men of the kingdom | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | damage not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | could · passive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=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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