The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 30
Prince Ahmed, from the same motive, did not assist at Prince Ali and the Princess Nouronnihar’s nuptials any more than his brother Houssain, yet did not renounce the world as he had done.
Who acts: Prince Ahmed, Prince · What happens: not assist, not renounce, do · To what, where: Ali, world
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 (Prince Ahmed, 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ahmed | compound |
| 2 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 assist | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 motive | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 motive | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 motive | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 motive | amod |
| 7 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ahmed | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahmed | punct |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 assist | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 assist | advmod |
| 11 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Ali | case |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 assist | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 nuptials | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Nouronnihar | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 18 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 nuptials | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Nouronnihar | case |
| 20 | nuptials | nuptial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Ali | conj |
| 21 | any | any | ADV | _ | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 assist | advmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 brother | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 more | obl |
| 26 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 brother | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 renounce | punct |
| 28 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 31 renounce | cc |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 renounce | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 renounce | advmod |
| 31 | renounce | renounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 assist | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 world | det |
| 33 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 renounce | obj |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 done | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 done | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 done | aux |
| 37 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 renounce | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 assist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not assist | past · do-support | Prince Ahmed | Ali Prince and the Princess Nouronnihar's nuptials | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not renounce | past · do-support | Prince Ahmed not said here | the world | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Source | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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