The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 113
When he chose the latter the Grand Vizier handed him the box.
Who acts: Caliph, Grand Vizier · What happens: choose, hand · To what, where: latter, box, Caliph
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, Grand Vizier), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 chose | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 handed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 latter | det |
| 5 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chose | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Vizier | det |
| 7 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Vizier | amod |
| 8 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 handed | nsubj |
| 9 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 handed | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 handed | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | Caliph | the latter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hand | past | the Grand Vizier | the box | Caliph | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination box=Theme |
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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