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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 43

The artificial apple which you bought at Samarcand, the carpet which Prince Houssain purchased at Bisnagar, and the tube which Prince Ali brought from Shiraz were of my contrivance.

Who acts: artificial apple, Prince, Ali · What happens: buy, purchase, bring, be · To what, where: Samarcand, carpet, Bisnagar, tube, Shiraz

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 (artificial apple, Prince, 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

detamodnsubjnsubjnsubjacl:relclcaseoblpunctdetapposobjnsubjflatacl:relclcaseoblpunctccdetadvclobjnmod:descnsubjacl:relclcaseoblcopcasenmod:posspunctrootTheDETartificialADJappleNOUNwhichPRONyouPRONboughtVERBatADPSamarcandPROPN,PUNCTtheDETcarpetNOUNwhichPRONPrincePROPNHoussainPROPNpurchasedVERBatADPBisnagarPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETtubeNOUNwhichPRONPrincePROPNAliPROPNbroughtVERBfromADPShirazPROPNwereAUXofADPmyPRONcontrivanceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 appledet
2artificialartificialADJDegree=Pos3 appleamod
3appleappleNOUNNumber=Sing31 contrivancensubj
4whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel6 boughtnsubj
5youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs6 boughtnsubj
6boughtbuyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 appleacl:relcl
7atatADP_8 Samarcandcase
8SamarcandSamarcandPROPNNumber=Sing6 boughtobl
9,,PUNCT_11 carpetpunct
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 carpetdet
11carpetcarpetNOUNNumber=Sing8 Samarcandappos
12whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel15 purchasedobj
13PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing15 purchasednsubj
14HoussainHoussainPROPNNumber=Sing13 Princeflat
15purchasedpurchaseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 carpetacl:relcl
16atatADP_17 Bisnagarcase
17BisnagarBisnagarPROPNNumber=Sing15 purchasedobl
18,,PUNCT_21 tubepunct
19andandCCONJ_21 tubecc
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 tubedet
21tubetubeNOUNNumber=Sing6 boughtadvcl
22whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel25 broughtobj
23PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing24 Alinmod:desc
24AliAliPROPNNumber=Sing25 broughtnsubj
25broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 tubeacl:relcl
26fromfromADP_27 Shirazcase
27ShirazShirazPROPNNumber=Sing25 broughtobl
28werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 contrivancecop
29ofofADP_31 contrivancecase
30mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 contrivancenmod:poss
31contrivancecontrivanceNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
32..PUNCT_31 contrivancepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1buypastthe artificial appleSamarcandyou nsubj; the tube advclvn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2purchasepastPrincethe carpetBisnagarvn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3bringpastAli Princethe tubeShirazvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent which=Theme from shiraz=Initial_Location
4ispastthe artificial appleof my contrivance; my nmod:posstree 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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