--- title: Queen Lona returned to the palace, and when the time for the birth o… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: Queen Lona returned to the palace, and when the time for the birth of the promised son drew nigh, she inquired of three Jogis who came begging to her gate, what the child’s fate would be, and the youngest of them answered and said: “Oh, Queen! Who acts: Queen, time, Jogis, fate. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, time, Jogis, fate), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:20:46 # text = Queen Lona returned to the palace, and when the time for the birth of the promised son drew nigh, she inquired of three Jogis who came begging to her gate, what the child’s fate would be, and the youngest of them answered and said: “Oh, Queen! 1 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Lona Lona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 20 nigh nigh ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 inquired inquire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 26 Jogis Jogis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 begging beg VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 40 obj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ’s 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 47 nsubj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nmod _ _ 47 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 : : PUNCT : _ 54 punct _ _ 51 “ " PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 54 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 54 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | Queen | | | | | to the palace *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle | | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **draw** | past | the time for the birth of the promised son | | | | | nigh *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | Queen | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** | past | Jogis | | | | | of three; who *nsubj* | tree rules | | 6 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | Jogis *not said here* | | | | | to Queen's gate | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **be** | would | the child's fate | Queen's gate | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | | 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the youngest of Rajah | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the youngest of Rajah *not said here* | | | | | Queen *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **fate** | | the child | | | | | | nom fate «event 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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/46/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/20/)