The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 36
As soon as it saw the Caliph and his Vizier—who had crept up meanwhile—it gave vent to a joyful cry.
Who acts: chamber, Caliph · What happens: see, creep up, give · To what, where: Caliph, vent, joyful cry
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 (chamber, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Caliph | det |
| 7 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Vizier | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Vizier | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Caliph | conj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 crept | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 crept | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 crept | aux |
| 14 | crept | creep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Caliph | acl:relcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 crept | compound:prt |
| 16 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 14 crept | advmod |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 20 | vent | vent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 cry | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cry | det |
| 23 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cry | amod |
| 24 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | chamber | the Caliph and Caliph's Vizier | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer caliph=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | creep up | past · perfect | the Caliph and Caliph's Vizier | meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | chamber | vent | a joyful cry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vent=Theme to cry=Recipient |
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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