The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 13

The Sultan of the Indies having heard all that the princes had to say in favor of their rarities remained some time silent, considering what answer he should make.

Who acts: princes, rarities, Prince · What happens: hear, have, say, remain, consider, answer · To what, where: Sultan, favor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (princes, rarities, Prince), 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	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Indies	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Indies	det
5	Indies	Indy	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Sultan	nmod
6	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 heard	aux
7	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 had	det:predet
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princes	det
11	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 favor	case
16	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remained	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 rarities	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 rarities	nmod:poss
19	rarities	rarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 remained	nsubj
20	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	ccomp
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 time	det
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remained	obj
23	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 considering	punct
25	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 remained	advcl
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 answer	obj
27	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 considering	conj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 make	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 make	aux
30	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 answer	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund · perfect · passive		the Sultan of the Indies				tree rules
2	have	past	the princes					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the princes not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	remain	past	women's rarities		favor	time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in favor=Location
5	consider	gerund	women's rarities not said here					vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
6	answer speech: assert	present	women's rarities not said here				what obj	tree rules
7	make	should	Prince					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 13

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 13