The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 86
In the meantime Bantugan had been preparing everything for the marriage which he expected to take place at the appointed time.
Who acts: BANTUGAN, marriage · What happens: prepare, expect, take, appoint · To what, where: everything, meantime, marriage, place
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 (BANTUGAN, marriage), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 preparing | obl |
| 4 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 meantime | appos |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 preparing | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 preparing | aux |
| 7 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 preparing | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 marriage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 marriage | det |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 preparing | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 expected | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 expected | nsubj |
| 14 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 marriage | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 expected | xcomp |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 preparing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · perfect · progressive | everything | the meantime | for the marriage | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent everything=Product for marriage=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | expect | past | BANTUGAN | the marriage | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the marriage not said here | place | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 4 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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