The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 16
The two storks on the palace roof looked at each other, and the Caliph Chasid said, “Can you guess now, Grand Vizier, why I have been enchanted?
Who acts: two storks, Caliph Chasid, you · What happens: look, say, guess, enchant · To what, where: Grand Vizier, Caliph Chasid · 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 (two storks, Caliph Chasid, you), 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 | 3 storks | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 storks | nummod |
| 3 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 roof | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roof | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roof | compound |
| 7 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 storks | nmod |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 looked | obl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Chasid | det |
| 15 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Chasid | compound |
| 16 | Chasid | Chasid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 guess | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 guess | punct |
| 20 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 guess | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 guess | nsubj |
| 22 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 guess | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Vizier | punct |
| 25 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Vizier | amod |
| 26 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 guess | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 enchanted | punct |
| 28 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 enchanted | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 enchanted | nsubj |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 enchanted | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 32 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 guess | conj |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the two storks on the palace roof | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Caliph Chasid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | guess in a quote | can | you | Grand Vizier | now | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | enchant in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Caliph Chasid = chasid | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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