The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 26
So the sultan determined in favor of Prince Ali, and gave orders for preparations to be made for the wedding of him and Nouronnihar, which was celebrated a few days after with great magnificence.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: determine, give, make, celebrate, favor, wed · To what, where: favor, orders, Nouronnihar, Ali, Prince
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 determined | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sultan | det |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 determined | nsubj |
| 4 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 favor | case |
| 6 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 determined | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ali | case |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 favor | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 determined | conj |
| 13 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 preparations | case |
| 15 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gave | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 made | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | aux:pass |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 gave | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 wedding | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wedding | det |
| 21 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wedding | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Nouronnihar | cc |
| 25 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 him | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 celebrated | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 29 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 Nouronnihar | acl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 days | det |
| 31 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 days | amod |
| 32 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 celebrated | obj |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 36 magnificence | case |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 magnificence | case |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 magnificence | amod |
| 36 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 celebrated | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | participle | the sultan | favor of Ali Prince | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the sultan not said here | orders | for preparations | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent order=Theme for preparation=Asset | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive · passive | the sultan not said here | for the wedding of Prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: for wedding=Asset | ||||
| 4 | celebrate | past · passive | Nouronnihar | after great magnificence; day | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | favor | Ali Prince | nom favor «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | wed | Prince | nom wedding «event 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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