The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 73
The storks seemed rather taken back by this suggestion, and the Caliph beckoned to his Vizier to retire and consult with him.
Who acts: suggestion, Caliph · What happens: take back, beckon, retire, consult · To what, where: storks, Vizier
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 (suggestion, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 storks | det |
| 2 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 suggestion | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 suggestion | det |
| 9 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beckoned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beckoned | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Caliph | det |
| 13 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 beckoned | nsubj |
| 14 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Vizier | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Vizier | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 beckoned | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 retire | mark |
| 19 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 beckoned | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 consult | cc |
| 21 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 retire | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 consult | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | past · passive | this suggestion | the storks | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | beckon | past | the Caliph | Caliph's Vizier | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to vizier=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | retire | to-infinitive | the Caliph not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | consult | infinitive | the Caliph not said here | with Caliph | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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