The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 28
Prince Ali, the second brother, who had designed to travel into Persia, after he had parted with his brothers, joined a caravan, and in four months arrived at Shiraz, the capital of that empire.
Who acts: Ali · What happens: design, travel, part, join, arrive · To what, where: second brother, Persia, caravan, Shiraz
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 (Ali), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 joined | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brother | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ali | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 designed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 designed | aux |
| 10 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 brother | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 travel | mark |
| 12 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 designed | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 Persia | case |
| 14 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 travel | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 parted | punct |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 parted | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 parted | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 parted | aux |
| 19 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 designed | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 brothers | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 parted | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ali | punct |
| 24 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 caravan | det |
| 26 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 joined | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 arrived | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 arrived | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 months | case |
| 30 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 months | nummod |
| 31 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 arrived | obl |
| 32 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 joined | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 Shiraz | case |
| 34 | Shiraz | Shiraz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 arrived | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 capital | punct |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 capital | det |
| 37 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Shiraz | appos |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 empire | case |
| 39 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 empire | det |
| 40 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 capital | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | design | past · perfect · passive | the second brother | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | travel | to-infinitive | Persia | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into persia=Destination | |||||
| 3 | part | past · perfect | Ali | with crier's brothers | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with brother=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | join | past | Ali Prince | a caravan | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Patient | ||||
| 5 | arrive | past | Ali Prince not said here | Shiraz | month | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/28/