The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 117
His merriest time was when the Grand Vizier visited him in the afternoon; and when the Caliph was in particularly high spirits he would condescend to mimic the Vizier’s appearance when he was a stork.
Who acts: merriest time, Grand Vizier, Caliph · What happens: be, visit, mimic · To what, where: Caliph, high spirits, appearance, stork
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 (merriest time, Grand Vizier, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 time | nmod:poss |
| 2 | merriest | merry | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 when | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 when | cop |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 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 visited | nsubj |
| 9 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 when | advcl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 visited | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 afternoon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 afternoon | det |
| 13 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 visited | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 condescend | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 condescend | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 condescend | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Caliph | det |
| 18 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 condescend | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 condescend | cop |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 spirits | case |
| 21 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 22 high | advmod |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spirits | amod |
| 23 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 condescend | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 condescend | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 condescend | aux |
| 26 | condescend | condescend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 when | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 mimic | mark |
| 28 | mimic | mimic | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 condescend | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Vizier | det |
| 30 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Vizier | case |
| 32 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mimic | obj |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 stork | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 stork | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 stork | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 stork | det |
| 37 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mimic | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 when | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Caliph's merriest time | when property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | visit | past | the Grand Vizier | Caliph | afternoon | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | is | would · past | the Caliph | high spirits | condescend property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | mimic | to-infinitive | the Caliph not said here | the Vizier's appearance | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | Caliph | a stork | 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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