The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 125
So it was agreed between the Spaniard and Bantugan that neither of them should marry the Princess.
Who acts: neither · What happens: agree, marry · To what, where: fighting, Spaniard
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neither), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | aux:pass |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 Spaniard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Spaniard | det |
| 7 | Spaniard | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Bantugan | cc |
| 9 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Spaniard | conj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 marry | obj |
| 11 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 marry | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 neither | nmod |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 marry | aux |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Spaniard | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 17 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marry | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · passive | fighting | between the Spaniard and Bantugan | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | marry | should | neither of Spaniards | the Spaniard and Bantugan | the Princess obj | tree rules |
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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