The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 95
About a year later Balna had a little son, and his uncles and aunts were so fond of him that he was in great danger of being spoiled.
Who acts: Balna, uncles, Prince · What happens: have, be, spoil · To what, where: little son, great danger
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 (Balna, uncles, Prince), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 year | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 had | advmod |
| 5 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fond | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fond | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 uncles | nmod:poss |
| 13 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fond | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 aunts | cc |
| 15 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 uncles | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fond | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 fond | advmod |
| 18 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 had | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fond | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 danger | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 danger | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 danger | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 danger | case |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 danger | amod |
| 26 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fond | advcl |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 spoiled | mark |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 spoiled | aux:pass |
| 29 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 danger | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Balna | a little son | late property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Prince's uncles and aunts | of Prince; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Prince | great danger | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spoil | gerund · passive | great danger not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V» |
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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