The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 23
A certain king had an only daughter, who, while yet a child, was famed for her marvellous beauty and dignity of bearing.
Who acts: certain king · What happens: have, fame · To what, where: only daughter
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. 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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 daughter | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 daughter | amod |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 famed | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 famed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 famed | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 famed | mark |
| 12 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 child | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 child | det |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 famed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 child | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 famed | aux:pass |
| 17 | famed | fame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 beauty | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 20 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beauty | amod |
| 21 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 famed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dignity | cc |
| 23 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beauty | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bearing | case |
| 25 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dignity | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a certain king | a only daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fame | past · passive | a only daughter | for ROSAMOND's marvellous beauty and dignity of bearing; a child nsubj:pass | 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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