The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 56
Reports of the wondrous beauty of the Princess Moonlight had reached the Emperor, so he sent a messenger to her, summoning her to the royal palace.
Who acts: word · What happens: reach, send, summon · To what, where: Reports, messenger, Moonlight
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 (word), 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 | Reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 beauty | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beauty | det |
| 4 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 beauty | amod |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Moonlight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Moonlight | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Moonlight | compound |
| 9 | Moonlight | Moonlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 beauty | nmod |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reached | aux |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Emperor | det |
| 13 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 sent | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reached | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 messenger | det |
| 19 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 summoning | punct |
| 23 | summoning | summon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sent | advcl |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 summoning | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 27 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 palace | amod |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 summoning | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect · passive | Reports | of the wondrous beauty of the Princess Moonlight; the Emperor obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary emperor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | word | a messenger | Moonlight | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to she=Destination | |||
| 3 | summon | gerund | word not said here | Moonlight | to the royal palace | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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