The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 80
Now about this time a Spanish general heard that Bantugan was preparing to marry the Sultan’s daughter, whom he determined to wed himself.
Who acts: Spanish general, Bantugan · What happens: hear, prepare, marry, determine, wed · To what, where: daughter, BANTUGAN
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 (Spanish general, Bantugan), 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 | 8 heard | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 general | det |
| 6 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 general | amod |
| 7 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 preparing | mark |
| 10 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 preparing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 preparing | aux |
| 12 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 heard | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 marry | mark |
| 14 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 preparing | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sultan | det |
| 16 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Sultan | case |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marry | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 determined | punct |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 determined | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 determined | nsubj |
| 22 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 wed | mark |
| 24 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 determined | xcomp |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 wed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | a Spanish general | now; time | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | prepare | past · progressive | Bantugan | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Bantugan not said here | the Sultan's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | determine | past | BANTUGAN | the Sultan's daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wed | to-infinitive | BANTUGAN not said here | BANTUGAN | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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