The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 45
Queen Lona returned to the palace, and when the time for the birth of the promised son drew nigh, she inquired of three Jogis who came begging to her gate, what the child’s fate would be, and the youngest of them answered and said: “Oh, Queen!
Who acts: Queen, time, Jogis, fate, youngest, child · What happens: return, promise, draw, inquire, come, beg · To what, where: gate · 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 (Queen, time, Jogis, fate), 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 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | Lona | Lona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Queen | flat |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 inquired | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 inquired | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 drew | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drew | nsubj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 birth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birth | det |
| 14 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 son | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 son | det |
| 17 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 son | amod |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 birth | nmod |
| 19 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 inquired | advcl |
| 20 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 19 drew | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drew | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 inquired | nsubj |
| 23 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 three | case |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 came | obl |
| 26 | Jogis | Jogis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 came | nsubj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 inquired | conj |
| 29 | begging | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 came | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 gate | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 gate | nmod:poss |
| 32 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 begging | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 be | punct |
| 34 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 be | obj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 child | det |
| 36 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fate | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 child | case |
| 38 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 be | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 be | aux |
| 40 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 gate | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 answered | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 answered | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 youngest | det |
| 44 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 47 answered | nsubj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 them | case |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 youngest | nmod |
| 47 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | parataxis |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 said | cc |
| 49 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 answered | conj |
| 50 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 54 Queen | punct |
| 51 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 54 Queen | punct |
| 52 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 54 Queen | discourse |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 Oh | punct |
| 54 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 said | ccomp |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Queen | to the palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | participle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | draw | past | the time for the birth of the promised son | nigh property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | past | Queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | come | past | Jogis | of three; who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | beg speech: request | gerund | Jogis not said here | to Queen's gate | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | be | would | the child's fate | Queen's gate | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 8 | answer speech: assert | past | the youngest of Rajah | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | say speech: assert | past | the youngest of Rajah not said here | Queen ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | fate | the child | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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