The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 33
With these three things hidden within his blouse he went to the palace gate and declared his desire to enter the race for the hand of the princess.
Who acts: man · What happens: hide, go, declare, enter, desire · To what, where: three things, palace gate, desire, race
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 (man), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 things | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 things | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 things | nummod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 5 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 things | acl |
| 6 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 blouse | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 blouse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | blouse | blouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 gate | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gate | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gate | compound |
| 14 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 declared | cc |
| 16 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 desire | nmod:poss |
| 18 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 declared | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 enter | mark |
| 20 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 declared | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 race | det |
| 22 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enter | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hand | det |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enter | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 princess | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 princess | det |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | participle | this three things not said here | within man's blouse | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | man | the palace gate | with this three things | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | declare speech: other | past | man not said here | man's desire | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | enter | to-infinitive | man not said here | the race | for the hand of the princess | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Destination | |||
| 5 | desire | man | nom desire «feeling 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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