The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 93
Then they released Balna from the tower, and all of them returned to their own palace; and it can be imagined with what joy the seven husbands and seven wives and their nephew met again.
Who acts: wings, all, joy, nephew · What happens: release, return, imagine, husband, meet · To what, where: Balna, tower, neck
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings, all, joy, nephew), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 released | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 released | nsubj |
| 3 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 released | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 tower | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tower | det |
| 7 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 released | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 returned | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 returned | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 all | nmod |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 released | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 palace | amod |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 imagined | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 imagined | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 imagined | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 imagined | aux:pass |
| 23 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 released | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 imagined | obl |
| 26 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 husbands | nsubj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 husbands | det |
| 28 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 husbands | nummod |
| 29 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 what | nsubj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wives | cc |
| 31 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 wives | nummod |
| 32 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 husbands | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 met | cc |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 35 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 met | nsubj |
| 36 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 husbands | conj |
| 37 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 met | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 released | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | past | wings = wing | Balna | the tower | then | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer balna=Source | ||
| 2 | return | past | all of wings | to wings's own palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 3 | imagine | can · passive | neck | what obl | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | husband | joy | seven wives conj | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | meet | past | wings's nephew | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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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