The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 63
The king was very fond of them and wished them to occupy the highest stations in life which would accord with their merit.
Who acts: king, highest stations · What happens: be, wish, occupy, accord · To what, where: virtue, highest stations, life
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 (king, highest stations), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fond | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fond | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 fond | advmod |
| 5 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fond | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wished | cc |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fond | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wished | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 occupy | mark |
| 12 | occupy | occupy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wished | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stations | det |
| 14 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 stations | amod |
| 15 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 occupy | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stations | nmod |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 accord | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 accord | aux |
| 20 | accord | accord | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stations | acl:relcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 merit | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 merit | nmod:poss |
| 23 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 accord | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | of virtue; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | the king not said here | virtue | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | occupy | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the highest stations | life | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus station=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | accord | would | the highest stations | with virtue's merit | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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