The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 22
The three princes had nothing to object to the decision of the sultan.
Who acts: three princes · What happens: have, decide · To what, where: nothing, sultan
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 (three princes), 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 | 3 princes | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 princes | nummod |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 object | mark |
| 7 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nothing | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 decision | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 decision | det |
| 10 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sultan | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sultan | det |
| 13 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 decision | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the three princes | nothing object | to the decision of the sultan | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | |||
| 2 | decide | the sultan | nom decision «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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