The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 58
In time the fame of this wonderful stone reached the Emperor, who desired to see it.
Who acts: fame, Emperor · What happens: reach, desire, see · To what, where: Emperor, stone
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 (fame, Emperor), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fame | det |
| 4 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 stone | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stone | amod |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fame | nmod |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Emperor | det |
| 11 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desired | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 desired | nsubj |
| 14 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Emperor | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 desired | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the fame of this wonderful stone | the Emperor | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme | |||
| 2 | desire | past | the Emperor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | stone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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