The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 100
But the Great Spirit said he preferred to marry the younger, and so it was arranged.
Who acts: Great Spirit, Spirit · What happens: say, prefer, marry, arrange · To what, where: younger, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great Spirit, Spirit), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Spirit | det |
| 3 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Spirit | flat |
| 4 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 preferred | nsubj |
| 7 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 marry | mark |
| 9 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 preferred | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 younger | det |
| 11 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 marry | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arranged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arranged | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 arranged | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 arranged | aux:pass |
| 17 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Great Spirit | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | prefer | past | Spirit | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Spirit not said here | the younger | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient | ||||
| 4 | arrange | past · passive | name | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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