The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 15
Then hearing this speech of his minister, whose words were always suited to the events, the King was excessively delighted.
Who acts: King · What happens: hear, suit, be, speak · To what, where: speech, words, minister · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | advmod |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 delighted | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 speech | det |
| 4 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 minister | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 minister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speech | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 suited | punct |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 suited | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 suited | aux:pass |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 suited | advmod |
| 13 | suited | suit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 speech | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 events | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 events | det |
| 16 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 suited | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 delighted | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 delighted | cop |
| 21 | excessively | excessively | ADV | _ | 22 delighted | advmod |
| 22 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the King not said here | this speech of child's minister | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | suit | past · passive | words | to the events; always property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the King | delighted, excessively property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak | child's minister | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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 descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (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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