The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 96
When they reached it the Caliph turned to the owl, and said with much feeling: “Deliverer of my friend and myself, as a proof of my eternal gratitude, accept me as your husband.”
Who acts: birds, Caliph, Deliverer · What happens: reach, turn, say, accept, proof · To what, where: pace, owl, Caliph, eternal gratitude · 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 (birds, Caliph, Deliverer), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Caliph | det |
| 6 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 owl | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 owl | det |
| 10 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 feeling | case |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feeling | amod |
| 16 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Deliverer | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Deliverer | punct |
| 19 | Deliverer | Deliverer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 accept | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 friend | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friend | nmod:poss |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Deliverer | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 myself | cc |
| 24 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 Deliverer | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 proof | punct |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 proof | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 proof | det |
| 28 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Deliverer | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 gratitude | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 31 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 gratitude | amod |
| 32 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 proof | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 accept | punct |
| 34 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 accept | obj |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 husband | case |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 husband | nmod:poss |
| 38 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 accept | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | birds = bird | pace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the Caliph | the owl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to owl=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Caliph not said here | with much feeling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | accept in a quote | infinitive | Deliverer of my friend myself and a proof of my eternal gratitude | the Caliph = caliph | as your husband | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Theme as husband=Attribute | |||
| 5 | proof in a quote | my eternal gratitude | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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