The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 2
He at once communicated his fears to the Caliph, who exclaimed, “By Mecca and Medina!
Who acts: Vizier, Caliph · What happens: communicate, exclaim, fear · To what, where: fears, Caliph
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 communicated | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 communicated | mark |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 communicated | advmod |
| 4 | communicated | communicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 communicated | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Caliph | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Caliph | det |
| 9 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 communicated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Caliph | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 “ | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 communicated | punct |
| 15 | By | by | ADP | _ | 16 Mecca | case |
| 16 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 “ | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Medina | cc |
| 18 | Medina | Medina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mecca | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 communicated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | communicate | past | Vizier | Vizier's fears | the Caliph | Mecca and Medina nmod; once property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fear=Topic to caliph=Recipient | ||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the Caliph | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fear | Vizier | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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