The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 59
At the end of six months, Prince Ahmed felt a great desire to visit the sultan his father, and know how he was.
Who acts: Prince Ahmed, Ahmed · What happens: feel, visit, know, be · To what, where: great desire, end, sultan · 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 (Prince Ahmed, Ahmed), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 months | case |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 months | nummod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ahmed | compound |
| 9 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 desire | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 desire | amod |
| 13 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 visit | mark |
| 15 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 felt | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sultan | det |
| 17 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 visit | obj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 visit | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 know | cc |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 felt | conj |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 know | ccomp |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 how | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 how | cop |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Prince Ahmed | a great desire | at the end of six months | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent desire=Theme at end=Location | |||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | Prince Ahmed not said here | the sultan | Ahmed's father obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know | present | Prince Ahmed not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Ahmed | how 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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