The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 11
The sultan received and embraced them with the greatest joy, both for their return and the wonderful recovery of the princess, his niece, whom he loved as if she had been his own daughter.
Who acts: sultan, princess, women · What happens: receive, embrace, love, be, return, recover · To what, where: women, niece, own daughter
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, princess, women), 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 received | nsubj |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 embraced | cc |
| 5 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 received | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 embraced | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 joy | det |
| 9 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 joy | amod |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 embraced | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 return | punct |
| 12 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 15 return | cc:preconj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 return | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 return | nmod:poss |
| 15 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joy | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 recovery | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 recovery | det |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 recovery | amod |
| 19 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joy | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 recovery | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 niece | punct |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 niece | nmod:poss |
| 25 | niece | niece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joy | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 loved | punct |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 loved | obj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 loved | nsubj |
| 29 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 niece | acl:relcl |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 daughter | mark |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 daughter | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 daughter | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 daughter | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 daughter | cop |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 daughter | amod |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 loved | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the sultan | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | embrace | past | the sultan not said here | women = woman | with the greatest joy both women's return and the wonderful recovery of the princess and sultan's niece | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | love | past | sultan | sultan's niece | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past · perfect | princess | sultan's own daughter | sultan nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | return | women = woman | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | recover | the princess | nom recovery «event intransitive»: of=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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