The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 36
Prince Ali wanted no other proof to persuade him that this tube was the most valuable article, not only in the city of Shiraz, but in all the world; and believed that if he should neglect to purchase it, he would never meet with an equally wonderful curiosity.
Who acts: Prince, tube, crier · What happens: want, persuade, be, believe, neglect, not purchase · To what, where: other proof, world, crier, valuable article, tube
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 (Prince, tube, 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 proof | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 proof | amod |
| 6 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 persuade | mark |
| 8 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 proof | acl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 persuade | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 article | mark |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 tube | det |
| 12 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 article | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 article | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 article | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 valuable | advmod |
| 16 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 article | amod |
| 17 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 persuade | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 city | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 city | advmod |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 city | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 city | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 city | det |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 article | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Shiraz | case |
| 25 | Shiraz | Shiraz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 city | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 world | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 world | cc |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 world | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 world | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 believed | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 believed | cc |
| 34 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wanted | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 neglect | mark |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 neglect | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 neglect | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 neglect | aux |
| 39 | neglect | neglect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 believed | ccomp |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 purchase | mark |
| 41 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 neglect | xcomp |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 purchase | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 meet | punct |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 meet | nsubj |
| 45 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 meet | aux |
| 46 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 47 meet | advmod |
| 47 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | parataxis |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 curiosity | case |
| 49 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 curiosity | det |
| 50 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 51 wonderful | advmod |
| 51 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 curiosity | amod |
| 52 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 meet | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Prince | no other proof | all world | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot proof=Theme | |||
| 2 | persuade | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | crier | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this tube | the valuable article and the city of Shiraz | the city of Shiraz conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | believe | past | Prince not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | neglect a condition, not said to happen | should | crier | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not purchase | to-infinitive | crier not said here | tube | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not meet | would | crier | with a wonderful curiosity | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with curiosity=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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