The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 125
The sultan, on her arriving at the proper age, was consulting about a neighboring prince with whom she might form an alliance, when he found that all the three princes, his sons, loved their cousin, and wished to marry her.
Who acts: sultan, Nouronnihar, three princes · What happens: arrive, consult, neighbor, form, find, love · To what, where: proper age, alliance, cousin, Nouronnihar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sultan, Nouronnihar, three princes), 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 sultan | det |
| 2 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 consulting | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 arriving | punct |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 arriving | mark |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arriving | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 sultan | acl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 age | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 age | det |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 age | amod |
| 10 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arriving | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sultan | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 consulting | aux |
| 13 | consulting | consult | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 prince | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 16 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 prince | amod |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 consulting | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 whom | case |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 form | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 form | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 form | aux |
| 22 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 consulting | parataxis |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 alliance | det |
| 24 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 form | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 found | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 consulting | parataxis |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 loved | mark |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 princes | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 princes | det |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 princes | nummod |
| 33 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 loved | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sons | punct |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sons | nmod:poss |
| 36 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 princes | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 princes | punct |
| 38 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | ccomp |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 40 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 loved | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 wished | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 wished | cc |
| 43 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 found | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 marry | mark |
| 45 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 wished | xcomp |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 marry | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 consulting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | gerund | the sultan not said here | at the proper age | Nouronnihar nmod:poss | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | consult | past · progressive | the sultan | about a neighboring prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about prince=Topic | ||||
| 3 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | form | might | Nouronnihar | a alliance | whom obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location alliance=Theme | |||
| 5 | find | past | sultan | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | love | past | all three princes | son's cousin | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cousin=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | wish | past | sultan not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | sultan not said here | Nouronnihar | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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