The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 19
“As this is the case,” added the sultan, “I must resort to other means to determine the choice I ought to make; and as there is time enough between now and night, I will do it to-day.
Who acts: this, sultan, time · What happens: be, add, resort, mean, determine, make · To what, where: choice · 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 (this, sultan, time), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | _ | 6 case | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 case | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 case | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 case | det |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 added | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 case | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 case | punct |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 means | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sultan | det |
| 11 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 added | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 resort | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 resort | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 resort | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 resort | aux |
| 16 | resort | resort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 added | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 other | case |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 resort | obl |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 determine | mark |
| 21 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 means | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 choice | det |
| 23 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 determine | obj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 ought | nsubj |
| 25 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 choice | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 make | mark |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ought | xcomp |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 do | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 do | cc |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 is | mark |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 is | expl |
| 32 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 do | advcl |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 is | nsubj |
| 34 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 33 time | advmod |
| 35 | between | between | ADP | _ | 36 now | case |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 time | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 night | cc |
| 38 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 time | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 is | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 do | nsubj |
| 41 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 do | aux |
| 42 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 means | ccomp |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 do | obj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 day | case |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 to | punct |
| 46 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 do | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this | as the case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | the sultan | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | resort in a quote | must | the sultan = sultan | to other result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to other=Result | ||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | determine not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the choice | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Topic | |||||
| 6 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 7 | does in a quote | present | time and night | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | do in a quote | future | the sultan = sultan | choice | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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