The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 54
The wise Abibas came first to the goal, and by the terms of the king’s proclamation he married the princess.
Who acts: wise Abibas, proclamation, king · What happens: come, marry, proclaim · To what, where: goal, princess
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 (wise Abibas, proclamation, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Abibas | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Abibas | amod |
| 3 | Abibas | Abibas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 goal | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 goal | det |
| 8 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 married | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 married | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 terms | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 terms | det |
| 13 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 married | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 proclamation | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 proclamation | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 married | nsubj |
| 20 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 married | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the wise Abibas | the goal | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to goal=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | marry | past | proclamation | the princess | by the terms; of the king's proclamation | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | |||
| 3 | proclaim | the 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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