The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 15
Drums and trumpets sounded; a man in a scarlet mantle, embroidered in gold, sat on a splendidly caparisoned horse surrounded by richly dressed slaves; half Bagdad crowded after him, and they all shouted, “Hail, Mirza, the Lord of Bagdad!”
Who acts: Drums, half · What happens: sound, embroider, sit, caparison, surround, dress · To what, where: man, gold, caparisoned horse, Hail
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 (Drums, half), 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 | Drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sounded | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 trumpets | cc |
| 3 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drums | conj |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mantle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mantle | det |
| 10 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mantle | compound |
| 11 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 embroidered | punct |
| 13 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 man | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 embroidered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounded | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 horse | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 20 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 21 caparisoned | advmod |
| 21 | caparisoned | caparison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 horse | amod |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 23 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 horse | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 slaves | case |
| 25 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 26 dressed | advmod |
| 26 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 slaves | amod |
| 27 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 crowded | punct |
| 29 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 31 crowded | nsubj |
| 30 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 half | appos |
| 31 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounded | conj |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 crowded | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 shouted | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 shouted | cc |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 shouted | nsubj |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 shouted | advmod |
| 38 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 crowded | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Hail | punct |
| 40 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 Hail | punct |
| 41 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 shouted | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Mirza | punct |
| 43 | Mirza | Mirza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Hail | appos |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Lord | punct |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Lord | det |
| 46 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Mirza | conj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Bagdad | case |
| 48 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Lord | nmod |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 43 Mirza | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | Drums and trumpets | a man in a scarlet mantle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | embroider | participle | a man in a scarlet mantle not said here | gold | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in gold=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | Drums and trumpets not said here | on a caparisoned horse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location | ||||
| 4 | caparison | participle | splendidly property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | surround | participle | a caparisoned horse not said here | dressed slaves obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | dress | participle | richly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | crowd | past | half | after Bagdad | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | shout speech: express | past | Drums = drum | Hail | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hail=Topic |
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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