The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 24
Her name was Rosamond, and in addition to her charm of face and figure, she excelled all others at athletic games.
Who acts: name, ROSAMOND · What happens: be, excel, name · To what, where: Rosamond, others, addition
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 (name, ROSAMOND), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Rosamond | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Rosamond | cop |
| 4 | Rosamond | Rosamond | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 excelled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 excelled | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 addition | case |
| 8 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 excelled | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 charm | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 charm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 addition | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 charm | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 figure | cc |
| 15 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 face | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 addition | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 excelled | nsubj |
| 18 | excelled | excel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Rosamond | acl:relcl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 others | det |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 excelled | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 games | case |
| 22 | athletic | athletic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 games | amod |
| 23 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 excelled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rosamond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ROSAMOND's name | Rosamond | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | excel | past | ROSAMOND | all others | addition to ROSAMOND's charm of face and figure | at athletic games | tree rules | ||
| 3 | name | ROSAMOND | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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