The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 80
They argued on for some time, but at length, when the Caliph saw plainly that his Vizier would rather remain a stork to the end of his days than marry the owl, he determined to fulfill the condition himself.
Who acts: Chasid, Caliph, Vizier · What happens: argue on, see, remain, marry, determine, fulfill · To what, where: length, stork, owl, condition · 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 (Chasid, Caliph, Vizier), 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 argued | nsubj |
| 2 | argued | argue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 argued | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 argued | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 length | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Caliph | det |
| 14 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 argued | conj |
| 16 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 15 saw | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 remain | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Vizier | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 remain | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 remain | aux |
| 21 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 22 remain | advmod |
| 22 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stork | det |
| 24 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remain | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 end | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 end | det |
| 27 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remain | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 days | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 days | nmod:poss |
| 30 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 end | nmod |
| 31 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 32 marry | mark |
| 32 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 remain | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 owl | det |
| 34 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 marry | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 determined | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 determined | nsubj |
| 37 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 argued | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 fulfill | mark |
| 39 | fulfill | fulfill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 determined | xcomp |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 condition | det |
| 41 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fulfill | obj |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 fulfill | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 argued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | argue on speech: disagree | past | Chasid | time | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Caliph | length | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | remain | would | Caliph's Vizier | a stork | to the end of Caliph's days | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stork=Attribute | |||
| 4 | marry | infinitive | Caliph's Vizier not said here | the owl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owl=Patient | ||||
| 5 | determine | past | Caliph | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | fulfill | to-infinitive | Caliph not said here | the condition | Caliph obl:unmarked | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Eventuality |
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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