The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 70
Then he strode away, full of bitterness and anger; but as he passed under the palace windows, he heard his mother weeping, and the sound softened his heart, so that his wrath died down, and a great loneliness fell upon him, because he was spurned by both father and mother.
Who acts: empire, sound, wrath, great loneliness, father · What happens: stride away, pass, hear, soften, die down, fall · To what, where: palace windows, mother weeping, heart, empire
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 (empire, sound, wrath, great loneliness), 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 | 3 strode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 strode | nsubj |
| 3 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 strode | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 strode | parataxis |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bitterness | case |
| 8 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 anger | cc |
| 10 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bitterness | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 heard | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 passed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 passed | nsubj |
| 15 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | advcl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 windows | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 windows | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 windows | compound |
| 19 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 passed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 passed | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strode | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 weeping | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 weeping | compound |
| 25 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 softened | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 softened | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sound | det |
| 29 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 softened | nsubj |
| 30 | softened | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | parataxis |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 heart | nmod:poss |
| 32 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 softened | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 died | punct |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 died | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 37 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 died | nsubj |
| 38 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 softened | conj |
| 39 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 died | compound:prt |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 fell | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 fell | cc |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 loneliness | det |
| 43 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 loneliness | amod |
| 44 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 fell | nsubj |
| 45 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strode | parataxis |
| 46 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 fell | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 spurned | punct |
| 49 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 52 spurned | mark |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 spurned | nsubj |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 spurned | aux:pass |
| 52 | spurned | spurn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 fell | conj |
| 53 | by | by | ADP | _ | 55 father | case |
| 54 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 55 father | cc:preconj |
| 55 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 spurned | obl |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 mother | cc |
| 57 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 father | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride away | past | empire | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pass | past | empire | the palace windows | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under window=Location | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | empire | empire's mother weeping | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer weeping=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | soften | past | the sound | empire's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 5 | die down | past | empire's wrath | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | fall | past | a great loneliness | upon empire | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 7 | spurn | past · passive | father and mother | empire | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | weep | empire | nom weeping «act intransitive»: 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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