The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 21
So the next day Princess Moonlight sent word to the first knight that she wished him to bring her the stone bowl which had belonged to Buddha in India.
Who acts: next day, Princess, stone bowl · What happens: send, wish, bring, belong · To what, where: word, first knight, stone bowl, Princess, Buddha, India
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 (next day, Princess, stone bowl), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 sent | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Moonlight | compound |
| 6 | Moonlight | Moonlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 knight | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 knight | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 knight | amod |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 wished | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wished | nsubj |
| 15 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wished | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bring | mark |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wished | xcomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bowl | det |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bowl | compound |
| 22 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 belonged | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 belonged | aux |
| 25 | belonged | belong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 bowl | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Buddha | case |
| 27 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 belonged | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 India | case |
| 29 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 belonged | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the next day | word | the first knight | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to knight=Destination | |||
| 2 | wish | past | Princess | word | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | the stone bowl | Princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination bowl=Theme | |||
| 4 | belong | past · perfect | the stone bowl | Buddha | India | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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