The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 65
He was soon informed of the resolution Prince Houssain had taken to forsake the world, and as he knew that he was alive and well, he supported his absence more patiently.
Who acts: Houssain, Prince · What happens: inform, take, forsake, know, be, support · To what, where: Prince, resolution, world, absence · 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 (Houssain, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 informed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 informed | aux:pass |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 informed | advmod |
| 4 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 resolution | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 resolution | det |
| 7 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 informed | obl |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Houssain | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 resolution | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 forsake | mark |
| 13 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taken | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forsake | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knew | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 knew | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 informed | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 alive | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 alive | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 alive | cop |
| 24 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 knew | ccomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 well | cc |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 alive | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 supported | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 supported | nsubj |
| 29 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 informed | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 absence | nmod:poss |
| 31 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 supported | obj |
| 32 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 patiently | advmod |
| 33 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 29 supported | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past · passive | Prince | of the resolution; soon property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of resolution=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | Houssain Prince | the resolution not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent resolution=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | forsake | to-infinitive | Houssain Prince not said here | the world | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | past | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Prince | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | support | past | Prince | Prince's absence | patiently property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer absence=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | absent | Prince | nom absence «state 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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