The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 41
She then sat down on a sofa; and when the prince, at her entreaty, had seated himself by her, she continued, “You know that the world is inhabited by genii as well as men; I am Perie Banou, the daughter of one of the most powerful of these genii.
Who acts: lady, You, genii, Enter · What happens: sit down, seat, continue, know, inhabit, be · To what, where: sofa, prince, world, Perie · 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 (lady, You, genii, Enter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sofa | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sofa | det |
| 7 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 seated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seated | cc |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 seated | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entreaty | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 entreaty | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 entreaty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | entreaty | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prince | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prince | punct |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seated | aux |
| 19 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sat | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 seated | obj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seated | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 continued | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 continued | nsubj |
| 25 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 28 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 know | nsubj |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 continued | ccomp |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 inhabited | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 inhabited | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 34 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 know | ccomp |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 genii | case |
| 36 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 inhabited | obl |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 34 inhabited | advmod |
| 38 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 as | fixed |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 men | case |
| 40 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 inhabited | obl |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 Perie | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 Perie | nsubj |
| 43 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 Perie | cop |
| 44 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 45 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Perie | flat |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 daughter | punct |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 daughter | det |
| 48 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 Perie | appos |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 one | case |
| 50 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 daughter | nmod |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 powerful | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 powerful | det |
| 53 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 54 powerful | advmod |
| 54 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 one | nmod |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 genii | case |
| 56 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 57 genii | det |
| 57 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 powerful | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | lady | a sofa | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sofa=Location | |||
| 2 | seat | past · perfect · passive | lady | the prince and lady's entreaty | Prince obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | continue | past | lady | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | inhabit in a quote | present · passive | genii | the world | as men | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | Enter | Perie | the daughter of one of the powerful of this genii appos | 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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