The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 41
So again all was well in China, and for many years the people lived in peace and prosperity, rejoicing in the fact that the beloved and wise Janqwi was their Empress.
Who acts: China, beloved Janqwi · What happens: be, live, rejoice · To what, where: China, peace, fact, Empress
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 (China, beloved Janqwi), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 all | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 China | det |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 China | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 China | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 China | case |
| 7 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lived | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lived | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 peace | case |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 prosperity | cc |
| 19 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 peace | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rejoicing | punct |
| 21 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 lived | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 fact | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fact | det |
| 24 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rejoicing | obl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 Empress | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Janqwi | det |
| 27 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Janqwi | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wise | cc |
| 29 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 beloved | conj |
| 30 | Janqwi | Janqwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Empress | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 Empress | cop |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 Empress | nmod:poss |
| 33 | Empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fact | acl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all China | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | all China | peace and prosperity | year | the people nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | ||
| 3 | rejoice | gerund | all China not said here | the fact | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the beloved Janqwi | people's Empress | people nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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