The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 39
As soon as Ahmed perceived the lady, he hastened to pay his respects; but the lady, addressing him first, said, “Enter, Prince Ahmed, you are welcome.”
Who acts: Ahmed, Enter, you · What happens: perceive, hasten, pay, address, say, be · To what, where: lady, respects, Ahmed · 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 (Ahmed, Enter, you), 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 | 5 perceived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 perceived | mark |
| 4 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 perceived | nsubj |
| 5 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perceived | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hastened | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hastened | nsubj |
| 10 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 perceived | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pay | mark |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hastened | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 respects | nmod:poss |
| 14 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pay | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lady | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 lady | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lady | det |
| 18 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perceived | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 addressing | punct |
| 20 | addressing | address | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 perceived | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 addressing | obj |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 addressing | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 perceived | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Enter | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Enter | punct |
| 27 | Enter | Enter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ahmed | punct |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Ahmed | compound |
| 30 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Enter | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 welcome | punct |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 welcome | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 welcome | cop |
| 34 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 perceived | parataxis |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 welcome | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 welcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | Ahmed | the lady | soon property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent lady=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | hasten | past | Ahmed | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | Ahmed not said here | Ahmed's respects | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset | ||||
| 4 | address | gerund | Ahmed not said here | Ahmed | first property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Enter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | you | welcome property | tree rules |
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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