The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 63
But the ruler was determined to have it at any cost, and so the stone changed hands.
Who acts: ruler, stone · What happens: be, have, change · To what, where: ruler, cost, hands
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 (ruler, stone), 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 | _ | 5 determined | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ruler | det |
| 3 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 determined | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 determined | cop |
| 5 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 determined | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 cost | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 cost | det |
| 11 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 changed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 changed | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 changed | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stone | det |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 changed | nsubj |
| 17 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 determined | conj |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 changed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ruler | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the ruler not said here | ruler | any cost | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | change | past | the stone | hands | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
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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