The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 41
Prince Ahmed took the road to Samarcand, and the day after his arrival, went as his brothers had done, into the market, where he had not walked long before he heard a crier, who had an artificial apple in his hand, offer it at forty purses.
Who acts: Prince, crier · What happens: take, go, do, not walk, hear, have · To what, where: road, Samarcand, market, crier, artificial apple, hand
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, 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Samarcand | case |
| 7 | Samarcand | Samarcand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 day | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 arrival | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 brothers | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 done | obl |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 went | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 market | punct |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 market | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 market | det |
| 25 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 done | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 walked | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 walked | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 walked | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 walked | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 walked | advmod |
| 31 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 market | acl:relcl |
| 32 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 walked | advmod |
| 33 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 35 heard | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 heard | nsubj |
| 35 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 walked | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 crier | det |
| 37 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 heard | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 had | punct |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 had | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 crier | acl:relcl |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 apple | det |
| 42 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 apple | amod |
| 43 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 had | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 hand | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 hand | nmod:poss |
| 46 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 apple | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 offer | punct |
| 48 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 offer | obj |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 52 purses | case |
| 51 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 52 purses | nummod |
| 52 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 offer | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Prince | the road | Samarcand | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent road=Theme to samarcand=Destination | ||
| 2 | go | past | Prince not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | the market | as crier's brothers | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not walk | past · perfect | crier | long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hear | past | crier | a crier | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crier=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | have | past | a crier | a artificial apple | crier's hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | |||
| 7 | offer | infinitive | Prince not said here | apple | forty purses | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 8 | arrive | crier | nom arrival «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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