The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 106
Fortunately, the Caliph found not only the box with the magic powder, but also his purse in his girdle; he was, therefore, able to buy in the nearest village all they required for their journey, and so at last they reached the gates of Bagdad.
Who acts: Caliph, Deliverer · What happens: find, be, buy, require, reach, journey · To what, where: box, nearest village, gates
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, Deliverer), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 5 found | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fortunately | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Caliph | det |
| 4 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 box | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 box | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 powder | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 powder | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 powder | amod |
| 13 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 box | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 purse | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 purse | cc |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 purse | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 purse | nmod:poss |
| 18 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 girdle | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 purse | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 able | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 able | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 able | cop |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 able | punct |
| 26 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 28 able | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 able | punct |
| 28 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 buy | mark |
| 30 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 able | xcomp |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 village | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 village | det |
| 33 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 village | amod |
| 34 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 buy | obl |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 village | conj |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 required | nsubj |
| 37 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 all | acl:relcl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 journey | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 journey | nmod:poss |
| 40 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 required | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 last | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 last | cc |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 last | advmod |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 last | case |
| 45 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 able | conj |
| 46 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 reached | nsubj |
| 47 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 last | acl:relcl |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 gates | det |
| 49 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 reached | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Bagdad | case |
| 51 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 gates | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Caliph | the box | with the magic powder; Caliph's purse in Caliph's girdle obl; fortunately property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | Caliph | able, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | Caliph not said here | the nearest village | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | require | past | Deliverer | for Deliverer's journey | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | Caliph not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | reach | past | Deliverer | the gates of Bagdad | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | ||||
| 7 | journey | Deliverer | nom journey «act 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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