The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 19
Each of them was to prove his love by bringing to her from a distant country something that she wished to possess.
Who acts: Each, Princess, satisfaction · What happens: be, bring, wish, possess, love · To what, where: something, Princess, distant country
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Each, Princess, satisfaction), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 prove | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Each | nmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prove | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 prove | mark |
| 6 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prove | obj |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 bringing | mark |
| 10 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 prove | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bringing | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 country | det |
| 15 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 country | amod |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bringing | obl |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 bringing | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 wished | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wished | nsubj |
| 20 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 something | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 possess | mark |
| 22 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wished | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Each of knights | satisfaction's love obj; prove property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | Each of knights not said here | something | Princess | a distant country | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent something=Theme to she=Destination from country=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | wish | past | Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | possess not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | love | satisfaction | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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