The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 39
Prince Ali was overjoyed at his purchase; he persuaded himself that, as his brothers would not be able to meet with anything so rare and admirable, the Princess Nouronnihar must be the recompense of his fatigue and travels.
Who acts: crier, brothers, Princess Nouronnihar · What happens: overjoy, persuade, not be, meet, be, travel · To what, where: Ali, purchase, crier, recompense
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 (crier, brothers, Princess Nouronnihar), 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 | 4 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 purchase | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 purchase | nmod:poss |
| 7 | purchase | purchase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overjoyed | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 persuaded | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 persuaded | nsubj |
| 10 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overjoyed | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 persuaded | obj |
| 12 | that | that | ADV | _ | 10 persuaded | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 able | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 able | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 able | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 able | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 persuaded | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 meet | mark |
| 22 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 anything | case |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 meet | obl |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 rare | advmod |
| 26 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 anything | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 admirable | cc |
| 28 | admirable | admirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rare | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 recompense | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Nouronnihar | det |
| 31 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 32 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 recompense | nsubj |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 recompense | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 recompense | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 recompense | det |
| 36 | recompense | recompense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meet | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 fatigue | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 fatigue | nmod:poss |
| 39 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 recompense | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 travels | cc |
| 41 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 meet | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | Ali Prince | crier's purchase | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | persuade | past | crier | crier | that property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | not is | would | crier's brothers | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | crier's brothers not said here | with anything | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with anything=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | must | the Princess Nouronnihar | the recompense | of crier's fatigue | tree rules | |||
| 6 | travel | present | crier's brothers not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | purchase | crier | nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | fatigue | crier | nom fatigue «state transitive»: 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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