The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 115
The Caliph ordered him to be confined in an iron cage, and placed in the palace gardens.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: order, confine, place · To what, where: Vizier, iron cage, palace gardens
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), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 confined | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 confined | aux:pass |
| 7 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cage | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cage | det |
| 10 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cage | compound |
| 11 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 confined | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 placed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 placed | cc |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 gardens | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gardens | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gardens | compound |
| 18 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 placed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the Caliph | Vizier | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | confine not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the Caliph not said here | a iron cage | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in cage=Destination | ||||
| 3 | place | participle | the Caliph not said here | the palace gardens | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in garden=Destination |
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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