The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 3
As soon as the order was given, the Princes Ali and Ahmed sat down by Houssain, and as their interest was the same, they all framed the same wish, and were transported instantaneously into the Princess Nouronnihar’s chamber.
Who acts: Princes Ali, interest, Ali · What happens: give, sit down, be, frame, transport, interest · To what, where: order, same wish, chamber
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 Ali, interest, Ali), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 sat | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 given | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 order | det |
| 5 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sat | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Ali | det |
| 10 | Princes | Princes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ali | compound |
| 11 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Ahmed | cc |
| 13 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ali | conj |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 sat | compound:prt |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Houssain | case |
| 17 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 framed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 framed | cc |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 same | mark |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 interest | nmod:poss |
| 22 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 same | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 same | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 same | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 framed | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 same | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 framed | nsubj |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 framed | advmod |
| 29 | framed | frame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sat | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 wish | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wish | amod |
| 32 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 framed | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 transported | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 transported | cc |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 transported | aux:pass |
| 36 | transported | transport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 framed | conj |
| 37 | instantaneously | instantaneously | ADV | _ | 36 transported | advmod |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 chamber | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Nouronnihar | det |
| 40 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 41 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 Nouronnihar | case |
| 43 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 transported | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the order | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the Princes Ali and Ahmed | by Houssain; soon property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by houssain=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Ali's interest | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | frame | past | Ali | the same wish | all property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent wish=Destination | |||
| 5 | transport | past · passive | Ali not said here | the Princess Nouronnihar's chamber | instantaneously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||
| 6 | interest | Ali | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=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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