The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 47
The Emperor had his finest junk made ready for a long voyage, and loaded it with rich gifts for the hermits.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: have, make, load · To what, where: finest junk, junk
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 (Emperor), 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 | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 junk | nmod:poss |
| 5 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 junk | amod |
| 6 | junk | junk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 junk | acl |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 voyage | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voyage | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 voyage | amod |
| 12 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ready | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 loaded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 loaded | cc |
| 15 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 loaded | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 gifts | case |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gifts | amod |
| 19 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 loaded | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 hermits | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hermits | det |
| 22 | hermits | hermit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gifts | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Emperor | Emperor's finest junk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent junk=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | Emperor's finest junk not said here | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | load | past | the Emperor not said here | junk | with rich gifts for the hermits | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with gift=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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