The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 99
Then he went to the Murti Hills, and placed the newborn babe, Kokilan, in an underground palace, and planted the mango branch at the door, saying, “In twelve years the mango tree will blossom; then will I return and marry Kokilan.”
Who acts: King, mango tree · What happens: go, place, plant, say, blossom, return · To what, where: newborn babe, underground palace, mango branch, door, twelve years, Kokilan · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, mango 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Hills | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hills | det |
| 6 | Murti | Murti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hills | compound |
| 7 | Hills | Hill | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 placed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 placed | cc |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 babe | det |
| 12 | newborn | newborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 babe | amod |
| 13 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Kokilan | punct |
| 15 | Kokilan | Kokilan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 babe | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 palace | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 19 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 palace | amod |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 planted | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 planted | cc |
| 23 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 branch | det |
| 25 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 branch | compound |
| 26 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 planted | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 door | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 door | det |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 planted | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saying | punct |
| 31 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 planted | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 years | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 years | punct |
| 34 | In | in | ADP | _ | 36 years | case |
| 35 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 years | nummod |
| 36 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 saying | obl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 tree | det |
| 38 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tree | compound |
| 39 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 blossom | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 blossom | aux |
| 41 | blossom | blossom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 years | acl:relcl |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 return | punct |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 return | advmod |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 return | aux |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 return | nsubj |
| 46 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | parataxis |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 marry | cc |
| 48 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 return | conj |
| 49 | Kokilan | Kokilan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 marry | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | King | then | to the Murti Hills | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | place | past | King not said here | the newborn babe | a underground palace | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent babe=Theme in palace=Destination | |||
| 3 | plant | past | King not said here | the mango branch | the door | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme at door=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | King not said here | year | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | blossom in a quote | future | the mango tree | twelve years not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location year=Theme | ||||
| 6 | return in a quote | future | King | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | marry in a quote | infinitive | King not said here | Kokilan | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kokilan=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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