The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 46
The new Ranee hated the seven poor Princesses, and wanted to get rid of them, so that her daughter might have all their riches.
Who acts: new Ranee, daughter · What happens: hate, want, get, have · To what, where: seven poor Princesses, riches
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 (new Ranee, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Ranee | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Ranee | amod |
| 3 | Ranee | Ranee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hated | nsubj |
| 4 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princesses | det |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Princesses | nummod |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Princesses | amod |
| 8 | Princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hated | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wanted | cc |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hated | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanted | xcomp |
| 14 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 get | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 have | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 get | conj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 riches | det:predet |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 riches | nmod:poss |
| 26 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 have | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | the new Ranee | the seven poor Princesses | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | want | past | the new Ranee not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | the new Ranee not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | have | might | Ranee's daughter | daughters's riches | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Patient |
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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