The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 23
On this proposal they went into the merchant’s back-shop, where they both sat down on the carpet; and as soon as the prince had formed his wish to be transported into his apartment at the khan, he in an instant found himself and the crier there.
Who acts: shops, prince, crier · What happens: go, sit down, form, transport, find, wish · To what, where: proposal, carpet, wish, apartment, crier
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shops, prince, crier), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 proposal | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 proposal | det |
| 3 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 shop | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shop | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 merchant | case |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shop | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 back | punct |
| 12 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 sat | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | both | both | ADV | _ | 17 sat | advmod |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 sat | compound:prt |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 carpet | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 carpet | det |
| 21 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 found | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 found | cc |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 soon | advmod |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 47 found | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 formed | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 prince | det |
| 28 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 formed | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 formed | aux |
| 30 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 soon | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wish | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 formed | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 transported | mark |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 transported | aux:pass |
| 35 | transported | transport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 wish | acl |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 apartment | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 38 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 transported | obl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 khan | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 khan | det |
| 41 | khan | khan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 apartment | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 found | punct |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 found | nsubj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 instant | case |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 instant | det |
| 46 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 he | nmod |
| 47 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 48 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 47 found | obj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 crier | cc |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 crier | det |
| 51 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 found | obj |
| 52 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 crier | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | shops = shop | this proposal | into the merchant's back shop | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into shop=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | sit down | past | shops = shop | the carpet | both property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on carpet=Location | |||
| 3 | form | past · perfect | the prince | crier's wish | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wish=Theme | ||||
| 4 | transport | to-infinitive · passive | the prince not said here | crier's wish not said here | crier's apartment at the khan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||
| 5 | find | past | crier | crier | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme crier=Attribute | |||
| 6 | wish | crier | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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