The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 60
Then the women, drenched with water, went weeping and wailing to the palace, complaining to the King that a mighty young Prince in shining armor, with a parrot on his wrist and a gallant steed beside him, sat by the well, and broke their pitchers.
Who acts: women · What happens: drench, go, weep, wail, complain, shine · To what, where: women, palace, mighty young Prince, King, armor, pitchers
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 (women), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 drenched | punct |
| 5 | drenched | drench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 women | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drenched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 women | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 went | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wailing | cc |
| 12 | wailing | wail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 weeping | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wailing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 complaining | punct |
| 17 | complaining | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 weeping | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 complaining | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 Prince | mark |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Prince | det |
| 23 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Prince | amod |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Prince | amod |
| 25 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 complaining | obl |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 shining | mark |
| 27 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 complaining | advcl |
| 28 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shining | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 parrot | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 parrot | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 parrot | det |
| 32 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shining | obl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 wrist | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 parrot | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 steed | cc |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 steed | det |
| 38 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 steed | amod |
| 39 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wrist | conj |
| 40 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 41 him | case |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 steed | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sat | punct |
| 43 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 well | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 well | det |
| 46 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sat | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 broke | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 broke | cc |
| 49 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 50 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 pitchers | nmod:poss |
| 51 | pitchers | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 broke | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drench | participle | the women not said here | with water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with water=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the women | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | the women not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wail | gerund | the women not said here | the palace | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to palace=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | complain speech: other | gerund | the women not said here | a mighty young Prince | the King | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | |||
| 6 | shine | gerund | the women not said here | armor | with a parrot on Prince's wrist and a gallant steed beside Prince | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent armor=Theme | |||
| 7 | sit | past | the women not said here | by the well | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by well=Location | ||||
| 8 | break | past | the women not said here | women's pitchers | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pitcher=Patient |
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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