The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 36
However, the king had to stand by the words of his proclamation, so preparations for the race were made.
Who acts: king · What happens: have, stand, make, word, proclaim · To what, where: preparations, proclamation
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 (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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stand | mark |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stand | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 proclamation | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 proclamation | nmod:poss |
| 13 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 words | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 made | advmod |
| 16 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 race | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 race | det |
| 19 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 preparations | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 had | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the king | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | the king not said here | by the words of king's proclamation | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by word=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | preparations for the race | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | word | king's proclamation | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | proclaim | king | nom proclamation «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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