The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 22
Once upon a time a certain king had as his Chief Counsellor a man who was proud and oppressive to those under him.
Who acts: certain king, man · What happens: have, be · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain king, man), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 had | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Counsellor | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Counsellor | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Counsellor | compound |
| 12 | Counsellor | Counsellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 proud | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 proud | cop |
| 17 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 oppressive | cc |
| 19 | oppressive | oppressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 proud | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 those | case |
| 21 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 oppressive | obl |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 those | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a certain king | a man | as king's Chief Counsellor; once property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | a man | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a man not said here | to those under king | 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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