The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 100
And after twelve years, the mango tree began to flower, and Raja Rasalu married the Princess Kokilan, who he won from Sarkap when he played chaupur with the king.
Who acts: mango tree, Raja, Princess Kokilan, tree · What happens: begin, flower, marry, win, play · To what, where: Princess Kokilan, Sarkap, chaupur
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mango tree, Raja, Princess Kokilan, tree), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 3 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 began | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 flower | mark |
| 11 | flower | flower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 married | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 married | cc |
| 14 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 married | nsubj |
| 15 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Raja | flat |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Kokilan | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Kokilan | compound |
| 19 | Kokilan | Kokilan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 married | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 won | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 won | nsubj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 won | nsubj |
| 23 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Kokilan | acl:relcl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Sarkap | case |
| 25 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 won | obl |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 played | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 played | nsubj |
| 28 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 married | advcl |
| 29 | chaupur | chaupur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 played | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 king | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 played | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the mango tree | year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | flower | to-infinitive | the mango tree not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry | past | Raja | the Princess Kokilan | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kokilan=Patient | ||||
| 4 | win | past | the Princess Kokilan | Sarkap | tree nsubj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from sarkap=Source | |||
| 5 | play | past | tree | chaupur | with the king | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme with king=Co-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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