The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 55
Presently a great number of genii and fairies danced before them, and at last divided themselves into two rows, through which the prince and Perie Banou passed toward their chambers and, after bowing, retired.
Who acts: great number, prince · What happens: dance, divide, pass, bow, retire · To what, where: genii, last, chambers
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 (great number, 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 9 danced | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 number | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 number | amod |
| 4 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 danced | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 genii | case |
| 6 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 number | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fairies | cc |
| 8 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 genii | conj |
| 9 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 danced | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 divided | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 divided | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 divided | obl |
| 16 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 danced | conj |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 divided | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 rows | case |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 rows | nummod |
| 20 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 divided | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 passed | punct |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 passed | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 passed | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Perie | cc |
| 27 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 prince | conj |
| 28 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Perie | flat |
| 29 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 divided | parataxis |
| 30 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 32 chambers | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 chambers | nmod:poss |
| 32 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 passed | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bowing | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bowing | punct |
| 35 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 36 bowing | mark |
| 36 | bowing | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 passed | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 retired | punct |
| 38 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 bowing | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | a great number of genii and fairies | before genii | presently property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location | |||
| 2 | divide | past | a great number of genii and fairies not said here | genii | last | into two rows | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | ||
| 3 | pass | past | the prince and Perie | rows's chambers | which obl | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location toward chamber=Destination | |||
| 4 | bow | gerund | the prince and Perie not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | retire | participle | the prince and Perie not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «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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