The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 65
Then Guido narrated from the beginning the Prime Minister’s accident and later ingratitude.
What happens: narrate · To what, where: accident, beginning
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 narrated | advmod |
| 2 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 narrated | compound |
| 3 | narrated | narrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 beginning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beginning | det |
| 6 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 narrated | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Minister | det |
| 8 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 9 Minister | compound |
| 9 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 accident | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Minister | case |
| 11 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 narrated | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ingratitude | cc |
| 13 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 ingratitude | advmod |
| 14 | ingratitude | ingratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 accident | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 narrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | narrate speech: other | participle | the Prime Minister's accident and ingratitude | from the beginning; then | Guido compound | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Topic |
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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