The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 56
Pei-Hang married Yun-Ying, and took her to where his father and mother lived, and they were as happy as could be.
Who acts: Pei, father · What happens: marry, take, live, be · To what, where: Yun
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, father), 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 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 married | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pei | punct |
| 3 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pei | flat |
| 4 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 married | obj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ying | punct |
| 7 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Yun | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 married | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 18 lived | mark |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 lived | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mother | cc |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 father | conj |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 happy | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 happy | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 happy | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 happy | cop |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 happy | advmod |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 took | parataxis |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 be | mark |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 be | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 happy | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past | Pei | Yun Ying | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yun=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Pei not said here | Yun | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | live | past | Pei's father and mother | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | father | happy property | 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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