The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 93
The second took the second; the third took the third; the fourth took the fourth; the fifth took the fifth; the sixth took the sixth, and the seventh, the handsomest of all the Princes, took the beautiful and clever Balna.
Who acts: second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth · What happens: take · To what, where: second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, beautiful Balna
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 (second, third, fourth, fifth), 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 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 second | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 third | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 third | det |
| 11 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fourth | det |
| 14 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fourth | det |
| 17 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fifth | det |
| 20 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fifth | det |
| 23 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 took | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sixth | det |
| 26 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 took | nsubj |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sixth | det |
| 29 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 took | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 handsomest | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 handsomest | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 seventh | det |
| 33 | seventh | seventh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 handsomest | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 handsomest | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 handsomest | det |
| 36 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 took | advcl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Princes | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 Princes | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Princes | det |
| 40 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 handsomest | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 took | punct |
| 42 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 took | conj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Balna | det |
| 44 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Balna | amod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 clever | cc |
| 46 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 beautiful | conj |
| 47 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 took | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the second | the second | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent second=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the third | the third | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the fourth | the fourth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fourth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the fifth | the fifth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | past | the sixth | the sixth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sixth=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | past | the sixth not said here | the beautiful Balna | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument balna=Destination |
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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