The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 67
The Emperor was greatly touched by the story, and sending for his Chief Counsellor, asked him if what Guido said was true.
Who acts: story, Guido · What happens: touch, send, ask, say, be · To what, where: Emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (story, Guido), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | aux:pass |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 touched | advmod |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 asked | cc |
| 11 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 asked | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Chief | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Chief | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sending | obl |
| 15 | Counsellor | Counsellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Chief | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sending | punct |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 true | mark |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 true | nsubj |
| 21 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 true | cop |
| 24 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 asked | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · passive | the story | the Emperor | greatly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | send | gerund | for Emperor's Chief | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the story not said here | Emperor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Guido | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | what nsubj; true property | 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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