The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 7
The sultan gave them the money he promised, and issued orders for the preparations for their travels.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: give, promise, issue, travel · To what, where: money, 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 (sultan), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sultan | det |
| 2 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 money | det |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 promised | nsubj |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 money | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 orders | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 orders | cc |
| 11 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 orders | amod |
| 12 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 preparations | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 preparations | det |
| 15 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 orders | nmod |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 travels | mark |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 travels | nmod:poss |
| 18 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the sultan | the money | princes = prince | issued orders for the preparations obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient money=Theme | ||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | sultan | the money not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | issue | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | travel | present | the sultan not said here | princes = prince nmod:poss | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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