The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 60
He mentioned his wish to Perie Banou, who was much alarmed lest this was only an excuse to leave her, and entreated him to forego his intention.
Who acts: Ahmed, this · What happens: mention, alarm, be, leave, entreat, forego · To what, where: wish, Perie, fairy, Ahmed, intention
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, this), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mentioned | nsubj |
| 2 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mentioned | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Perie | case |
| 6 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mentioned | obl |
| 7 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Perie | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 alarmed | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 alarmed | advmod |
| 12 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Perie | acl |
| 13 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 18 excuse | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 excuse | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 excuse | cop |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 excuse | advmod |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 excuse | det |
| 18 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 alarmed | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 leave | mark |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 excuse | acl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 leave | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 entreated | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 entreated | cc |
| 24 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mentioned | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 entreated | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 forego | mark |
| 27 | forego | forego | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 entreated | xcomp |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 intention | nmod:poss |
| 29 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 forego | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mentioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | past | Ahmed | Ahmed's wish | Perie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wish=Topic to perie=Recipient | |||
| 2 | alarm | past · passive | Perie | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | this | lest a excuse | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | fairy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 5 | entreat | past | Ahmed not said here | Ahmed | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | forego | to-infinitive | Ahmed not said here | Ahmed's intention | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Theme | ||||
| 7 | wish | Ahmed | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | intend | Ahmed | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=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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