The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 40
He now thought only of visiting the court of Persia, and of seeing whatever was curious in Shiraz, and when the caravan took its departure he joined the party of merchants with whom he had travelled, and arrived happily without any accident or trouble at the place appointed, where he found Prince Houssain, and both waited for Prince Ahmed.
Who acts: crier, whatever, caravan, both, court · What happens: think, visit, see, be, take, join · To what, where: court, Shiraz, departure, party, place, Houssain · Speech: someone speaks here
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, whatever, caravan, both), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 visiting | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 visiting | mark |
| 6 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 court | det |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visiting | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Persia | case |
| 10 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 court | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seeing | cc |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 seeing | mark |
| 14 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 visiting | advcl |
| 15 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 curious | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 curious | cop |
| 17 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seeing | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Shiraz | case |
| 19 | Shiraz | Shiraz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 curious | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 joined | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 joined | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 took | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 caravan | det |
| 24 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 joined | advcl |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 departure | nmod:poss |
| 27 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 joined | nsubj |
| 29 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 party | det |
| 31 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 joined | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 merchants | case |
| 33 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 party | nmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 whom | case |
| 35 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 merchants | nmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 travelled | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 travelled | aux |
| 38 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 whom | acl:relcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 arrived | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 arrived | cc |
| 41 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 42 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 41 arrived | advmod |
| 43 | without | without | ADP | _ | 45 accident | case |
| 44 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 accident | det |
| 45 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 arrived | obl |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 trouble | cc |
| 47 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 accident | conj |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 place | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 place | det |
| 50 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 appointed | obl |
| 51 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 arrived | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 found | punct |
| 53 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 55 found | advmod |
| 54 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 found | nsubj |
| 55 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 appointed | parataxis |
| 56 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 Houssain | nmod:desc |
| 57 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 found | obj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 waited | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 61 waited | cc |
| 60 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 61 waited | nsubj |
| 61 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 found | conj |
| 62 | for | for | ADP | _ | 64 Ahmed | case |
| 63 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 Ahmed | compound |
| 64 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 waited | obl |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | crier | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | visit | gerund | crier not said here | the court of Persia | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | crier not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | whatever | Shiraz | curious property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | take | past | the caravan | court's departure | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Theme | ||||
| 6 | join | past | crier | the party of merchants with the party of merchants with the party | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | ||||
| 7 | travell | past · perfect | crier | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | arrive | past | without any accident or trouble; happily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | appoint | past | the place | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | find | past | crier | Houssain Prince | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent houssain=Topic | ||||
| 11 | wait | past | both | for Prince Ahmed | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 12 | depart | court | nom departure «act 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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