The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 57
But the messenger was no more successful in seeing her than the five knights had been, in spite of the fact that it was the Emperor’s order.
Who acts: messenger · What happens: not be, see, have, be · To what, where: Moonlight, spite, order
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 (messenger), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 successful | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 messenger | det |
| 3 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 successful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 successful | cop |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 successful | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 successful | advmod |
| 7 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 seeing | mark |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 successful | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seeing | obj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 knights | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 knights | det |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 knights | nummod |
| 14 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seeing | obl |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 successful | advcl |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 spite | cop |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spite | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 spite | case |
| 19 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fact | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fact | det |
| 22 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spite | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 order | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 order | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 order | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Emperor | det |
| 27 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 order | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Emperor | case |
| 29 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fact | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 successful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the messenger | successful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the messenger not said here | Moonlight | than the five knights | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | have | past | the messenger not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | participle | spite | of the fact | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | messenger | the Emperor's order | the Emperor nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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