The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 112
As the son, however, knew nothing of his father’s acts, the Caliph gave him his choice between death and a pinch of the magic snuff.
Who acts: Caliph, father · What happens: know, give, act, pinch · To what, where: nothing, choice, magician, magic snuff
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, father), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 son | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 knew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 knew | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 acts | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 acts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 father | case |
| 13 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Caliph | det |
| 16 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 choice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 choice | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pinch | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pinch | det |
| 25 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 choice | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 snuff | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 snuff | det |
| 28 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 snuff | amod |
| 29 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pinch | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | nothing of magician's father's acts | as the son; however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus as son=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the Caliph | Caliph's choice and a pinch of the magic snuff | magician | between death | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient choice=Theme | ||
| 3 | act | magician's father | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | pinch | the magic snuff | nom pinch «state 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 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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