The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 86
“Princess Moonlight, many moons ago you committed a grave fault, and for punishment were sent down to earth to live for a time.
Who acts: you · What happens: commit, send down, live · To what, where: grave fault, earth
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 committed | punct |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Moonlight | compound |
| 3 | Moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 moons | punct |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moons | amod |
| 6 | moons | moon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Moonlight | conj |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 committed | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 committed | nsubj |
| 9 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fault | det |
| 11 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fault | amod |
| 12 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 committed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 punishment | case |
| 16 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sent | aux:pass |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 committed | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 sent | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 earth | case |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 live | mark |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sent | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 live | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 committed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commit in a quote | past | you | a grave fault | ago property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Theme | |||
| 2 | send down in a quote | past · passive | you not said here | earth | for punishment | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to earth=Destination | |||
| 3 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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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