The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 72
This made the old people and the Princess’s attendants very sad, for they all loved her, and the thought of losing her was a great blow to them.
Who acts: This, people, thought · What happens: make, love, lose, be · To what, where: old people, Princess, great blow, people
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 (This, people, thought), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 attendants | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Princess | case |
| 10 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 people | conj |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 sad | advmod |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 loved | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 loved | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 loved | nsubj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 loved | advmod |
| 17 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 loved | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 blow | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 blow | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thought | det |
| 22 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 blow | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 losing | mark |
| 24 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 thought | acl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 losing | obj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 blow | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 blow | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 blow | amod |
| 29 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 blow | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | This | the old people and the Princess's attendants | sad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | |||
| 2 | love | past | people | Princess | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | the thought not said here | Princess | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the thought | a great blow | people | 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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