The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 72
Prince Ali took the tube out of Houssain’s hand, and after he had seen the same object with the deepest grief presented it to Ahmed, who also beheld the sad sight which so much concerned them all.
Who acts: Prince, Houssain, same object, Ahmed · What happens: take, see, present, behold, concern · To what, where: tube, hand, Ahmed, sad sight, 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, Houssain, same object, Ahmed), 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 | Ali | Ali | 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 tube | det |
| 5 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 8 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Houssain | case |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seen | cc |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 seen | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 presented | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 object | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 object | amod |
| 19 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 presented | nsubj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 grief | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grief | det |
| 22 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 grief | amod |
| 23 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 object | nmod |
| 24 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 presented | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Ahmed | case |
| 27 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 presented | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 beheld | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 beheld | nsubj |
| 30 | also | also | ADV | _ | 31 beheld | advmod |
| 31 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Ahmed | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sight | det |
| 33 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sight | amod |
| 34 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 beheld | obj |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 concerned | obj |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 much | advmod |
| 37 | much | much | ADV | _ | 38 concerned | advmod |
| 38 | concerned | concern | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 presented | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 concerned | obj |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Prince | the tube | Houssain's hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tube=Theme out hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | Houssain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | present | past | the same object with the deepest grief | tube | Ahmed | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ahmed=Recipient | |||
| 4 | behold | past | Ahmed | the sad sight | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | concern | past | the same object with the deepest grief not said here | princes = prince | which obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer they=Result |
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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