The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 29
As soon as they were old enough, the Rajah’s daughters took turns every day to cook their father’s dinner, while he was busily engaged with his ministers in directing the affairs of his country.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: be, take, cook, engage, direct · To what, where: turns, dinner, Rajah, affairs
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 took | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 old | case |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 old | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 old | cop |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 soon | conj |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 old | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rajah | det |
| 10 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Rajah | case |
| 12 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 cook | mark |
| 18 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 took | advcl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 father | case |
| 22 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cook | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 engaged | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 engaged | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 engaged | aux:pass |
| 27 | busily | busily | ADV | _ | 28 engaged | advmod |
| 28 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 took | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 ministers | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 engaged | obl |
| 32 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 33 directing | mark |
| 33 | directing | direct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 engaged | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 affairs | det |
| 35 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 directing | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 country | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 country | nmod:poss |
| 38 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 affairs | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | daughters = daughter | enough, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the Rajah's daughters | turns | day | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | ||
| 3 | cook | to-infinitive | the Rajah's daughters not said here | daughters's father's dinner | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | ||||
| 4 | engage | past · passive | Rajah | with Rajah's ministers; busily property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | direct | gerund | the affairs of Rajah's country | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent affair=Eventuality |
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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