The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 6

They turned to the east and fell to bowing till their bills touched the ground, but, oh, horror—the magic word was quite forgotten, and however often the Caliph bowed and however touchingly his Vizier cried “Mu—mu——” they could not recall it, and the unhappy Chasid and Mansor remained storks as they were.

Who acts: Mu, bills, horror, Caliph, Vizier, unhappy Chasid · What happens: turn, fall, touch, forget, bow, cry · To what, where: east, ground, magic word, Mu, word, storks · 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 (Mu, bills, horror, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 east	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 east	det
5	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bowing	case
9	bowing	bowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 touched	mark
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bills	nmod:poss
12	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 touched	nsubj
13	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touched	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 horror	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 horror	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 but	punct
19	oh	oh	INTJ	_	21 horror	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 oh	punct
21	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	parataxis
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	28 forgotten	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 word	det
24	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 word	amod
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 forgotten	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 forgotten	aux:pass
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 forgotten	advmod
28	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 horror	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bowed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bowed	cc
31	however	however	ADV	_	35 bowed	advmod
32	often	often	ADV	_	34 Caliph	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Caliph	det
34	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 bowed	nsubj
35	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 forgotten	parataxis
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 cried	cc
37	however	however	ADV	_	38 touchingly	advmod
38	touchingly	touchingly	ADV	_	41 cried	advmod
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 Vizier	nmod:poss
40	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 cried	nsubj
41	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 bowed	conj
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	43 Mu	punct
43	Mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cried	obj
44	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 mu	punct
45	mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 Mu	appos
46	—	-	PUNCT	_	45 mu	punct
47	—	-	PUNCT	_	43 Mu	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	43 Mu	punct
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 recall	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 recall	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 recall	advmod
52	recall	recall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 cried	ccomp
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 recall	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 remained	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 remained	cc
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 Chasid	det
57	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 Chasid	amod
58	Chasid	Chasid	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 remained	nsubj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 Mansor	cc
60	Mansor	Mansor	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 Chasid	conj
61	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 bowed	conj
62	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 remained	obj
63	as	as	SCONJ	_	65 were	mark
64	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 were	nsubj
65	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 remained	advcl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Mu		the east	horror parataxis	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to east=Trajectory
2	fall	past	Mu not said here			to bowing	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bowing=Theme
3	touch	past	Mu's bills	the ground			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
4	forget	past · passive	horror not said here	the magic word			tree rules
5	bow	past	the Caliph			however property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cry speech: express	past	Caliph's Vizier	Mu		touchingly property	tree rules
7	not recall	could	Mu	word			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	remain	past	the unhappy Chasid and Mansor	storks			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stork=Attribute
9	be	past	Mu				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	bill		Mu				nom bill «communication 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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 6

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 6