The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 110
His Majesty rejoiced at his return, and although he knew all that had happened since he left the court, he asked him to tell his own story.
Who acts: Majesty, youth, that · What happens: rejoice, know, happen, leave, ask, tell · To what, where: return, court, Majesty, own story · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, youth, that), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 3 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 return | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 return | nmod:poss |
| 6 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rejoiced | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knew | cc |
| 9 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 11 knew | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoiced | parataxis |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 happened | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | aux |
| 15 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 18 left | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happened | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 court | det |
| 20 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 asked | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asked | nsubj |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rejoiced | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asked | iobj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 tell | mark |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 asked | xcomp |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 story | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 story | amod |
| 29 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tell | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | youth's Majesty | youth's return | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | know | past | youth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | youth | the court | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | youth | Majesty | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | youth not said here | youth's own story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | return | youth | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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