The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 43
Then he went on to Chang-ngan, where he found that Yun-Ying’s mother had spread a report that he was dead, and had invited all her friends to attend a wedding feast in honor of her daughter’s marriage with the yellow-faced old mandarin.
Who acts: Pei, mother, daughter · What happens: go on, find, spread, be, invite, attend · To what, where: report, friends, wedding feast, honor, marriage · 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 (Pei, mother, daughter), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ngan | case |
| 6 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ngan | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Chang | punct |
| 8 | ngan | ngan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 found | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ngan | acl:relcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 spread | mark |
| 14 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ying | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Yun | punct |
| 16 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Ying | case |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spread | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 spread | aux |
| 20 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 found | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 report | det |
| 22 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spread | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 dead | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dead | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dead | cop |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spread | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 invited | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 invited | cc |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 invited | aux |
| 30 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 friends | det:predet |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 friends | nmod:poss |
| 33 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 invited | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 attend | mark |
| 35 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 invited | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 feast | det |
| 37 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 feast | compound |
| 38 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 attend | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 honor | case |
| 40 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 attend | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 marriage | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 43 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 daughter | case |
| 45 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 honor | nmod |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 mandarin | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 mandarin | det |
| 48 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 faced | amod |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 yellow | punct |
| 50 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 mandarin | amod |
| 51 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 mandarin | amod |
| 52 | mandarin | mandarin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 marriage | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Pei | then | to Chang ngan | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | Pei | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spread | past · perfect | Yun Ying's mother | a report | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location report=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Pei | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | invite | past · perfect | Pei not said here | mother's friends | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | attend | to-infinitive | Pei not said here | a wedding feast | honor of mother's daughter's marriage with the faced old mandarin | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feast=Goal | |||
| 7 | honor | mother's daughter's marriage with the faced old mandarin | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | marry | mother's daughter | with the faced old mandarin | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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