The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 43
He had heard of men in times gone by who had lived as long as that, and recalled the story of a certain Princess who had reached the age of five hundred years.
Who acts: plenty, certain Princess · What happens: hear, go, live, recall, reach · To what, where: times, story, age
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty, certain Princess), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 times | acl |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 lived | mark |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | aux |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 gone | advcl |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 lived | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 long | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 recalled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 recalled | cc |
| 19 | recalled | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 story | det |
| 21 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 recalled | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Princess | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Princess | det |
| 24 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Princess | amod |
| 25 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 story | nmod |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 reached | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 reached | aux |
| 28 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 age | det |
| 30 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reached | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 years | case |
| 32 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 hundred | compound |
| 33 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 years | nummod |
| 34 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 age | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | plenty | time | of men | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go | participle | times not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | past · perfect | who nsubj; long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | recall | past | plenty not said here | the story of a certain Princess | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 5 | reach | past · perfect | a certain Princess | the age of hundred years | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent age=Theme |
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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