The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 53
When Prince Ahmed joined his brothers they embraced with tenderness, and complimented each other on the happiness of meeting together in safety at the same place they had set out from.
Who acts: Prince Ahmed, princes, happiness, same place · What happens: join, embrace, compliment, meet, set out · To what, where: brothers, other, happiness, safety, princes
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 Ahmed, princes, happiness, same place), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 joined | mark |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ahmed | compound |
| 3 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 joined | nsubj |
| 4 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 embraced | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 joined | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 embraced | nsubj |
| 8 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 tenderness | case |
| 10 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 embraced | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 complimented | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 complimented | cc |
| 13 | complimented | compliment | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 embraced | conj |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 complimented | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 happiness | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 happiness | det |
| 18 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 complimented | obl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 meeting | mark |
| 20 | meeting | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 happiness | acl |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 meeting | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 safety | case |
| 23 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meeting | obl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 place | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 place | amod |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meeting | obl |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 set | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 set | aux |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 place | acl:relcl |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 set | compound:prt |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 set | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past | Prince Ahmed | Ahmed's brothers | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | ||||
| 2 | embrace | past | princes = prince | with tenderness | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | compliment | participle | princes = prince not said here | each other | the happiness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | |||
| 4 | meet | gerund | the happiness not said here | safety | at the same place; together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | set out | past · perfect · passive | the same place not said here | princes = prince | tree rules |
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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