The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 111
The Caliph sent the magician to the room where the princess had lived as an owl, and there had him hanged.
Who acts: Caliph, princess, magician · What happens: send, live, have, hange · To what, where: magician, room
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, princess, magician), 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 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 magician | det |
| 5 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 room | det |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lived | aux |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 room | acl:relcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 owl | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 owl | det |
| 16 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 had | expl |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | obj |
| 22 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 had | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Caliph | the magician | the room | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent magician=Theme to room=Destination | |||
| 2 | live | past · perfect | the princess | as a owl | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the Caliph not said here | magician | there | tree rules | |||
| 4 | hange | participle | magician not said here | tree rules |
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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