The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 69
Now, Rajah Sarkap, seeing Rasalu’s confident bearing, began to be afraid, and ordered all the women of his palace to come forth in their gayest attire and stand before Rasalu, so as to distract his attention from the game.
Who acts: Rajah · What happens: see, begin, be, order, come, stand · To what, where: women, gayest attire, Rasalu, attention, game
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 (Rajah), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 began | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 began | nsubj |
| 4 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Rajah | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bearing | punct |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 bearing | amod |
| 7 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bearing | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Rasalu | case |
| 9 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bearing | amod |
| 10 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Rajah | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rajah | punct |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 afraid | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 afraid | cop |
| 15 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 began | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ordered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ordered | cc |
| 18 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 began | advcl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 women | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 women | det |
| 21 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ordered | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 women | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ordered | xcomp |
| 27 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 attire | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 attire | nmod:poss |
| 30 | gayest | gay | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 attire | amod |
| 31 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 come | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 stand | cc |
| 33 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 come | conj |
| 34 | before | before | ADP | _ | 35 Rasalu | case |
| 35 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 stand | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 distract | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 distract | advmod |
| 38 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 distract | mark |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 distract | mark |
| 40 | distract | distract | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 began | parataxis |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 attention | nmod:poss |
| 42 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 distract | obj |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 game | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 game | det |
| 45 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 distract | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | begin | past | Rajah | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Rajah not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | order | past | Rajah not said here | all women of Rajah's palace | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rajah not said here | arms's gayest attire | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in attire=Location | |||
| 6 | stand | infinitive | Rajah not said here | Rasalu | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before rasalu=Location | ||||
| 7 | distract | to-infinitive | Rajah's attention | the game | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus attention=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | attend | Rajah | nom attention «cognition 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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