The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 52
He then spent his time in seeing all that was curious at and about Samarcand; and having joined the first caravan that set out for the Indies, he arrived in perfect health at the inn, where the Princes Houssain and Ali waited for him.
Who acts: experiment, that, first caravan, Princes · What happens: spend, see, be, have, join, set out · To what, where: Samarcand, first caravan, perfect health
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 (experiment, that, first caravan, Princes), 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 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 spent | advmod |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 time | nmod:poss |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 seeing | mark |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spent | advcl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 curious | det:predet |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 curious | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 curious | cop |
| 11 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seeing | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Samarcand | case |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Samarcand | cc |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 Samarcand | case |
| 15 | Samarcand | Samarcand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 curious | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 arrived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 arrived | cc |
| 18 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 arrived | advcl |
| 19 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 having | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 caravan | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 caravan | amod |
| 22 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 joined | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 set | nsubj |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 caravan | acl:relcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 Indies | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Indies | det |
| 28 | Indies | Indy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 set | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 having | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 arrived | nsubj |
| 31 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | parataxis |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 health | case |
| 33 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 health | amod |
| 34 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 arrived | obl |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 inn | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 inn | det |
| 37 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 arrived | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 waited | punct |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 waited | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Princes | det |
| 41 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 45 waited | nsubj |
| 42 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Princes | nmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Ali | cc |
| 44 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Houssain | conj |
| 45 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 arrived | conj |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 waited | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | experiment | then; time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | experiment not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | that | Samarcand | curious property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | gerund | experiment not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | join | participle | experiment not said here | the first caravan | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Patient | ||||
| 6 | set out | past | the first caravan | for the Indies | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | arrive | past | experiment | perfect health | at the inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | wait | past | the Princes Houssain and Ali | for experiment | vn exist-47.1 «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.
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