The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 66
He made the most diligent search after Ahmed, and despatched messengers to all the provinces of his kingdom, with orders to the governors to stop him, and oblige him to return to court; but all the pains he took had not the desired success; and his affliction, instead of diminishing, increased.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: make, despatch, stop, oblige, return, take · To what, where: diligent search, messengers, Prince, pains, desired success
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), 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 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 search | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 diligent | advmod |
| 5 | diligent | diligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 search | amod |
| 6 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 Ahmed | case |
| 8 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 despatched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 despatched | cc |
| 11 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 made | conj |
| 12 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 despatched | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 provinces | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 provinces | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 provinces | det |
| 16 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 despatched | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 provinces | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 orders | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 orders | case |
| 22 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 despatched | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 governors | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 governors | det |
| 25 | governors | governor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 orders | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 stop | mark |
| 27 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 despatched | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 stop | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 oblige | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 oblige | cc |
| 31 | oblige | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 stop | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 oblige | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 return | mark |
| 34 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 oblige | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 court | case |
| 36 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 return | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 pains | cc |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 pains | det:predet |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 pains | det |
| 41 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 ; | conj |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 took | nsubj |
| 43 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 pains | acl:relcl |
| 44 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 took | ccomp |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 success | advmod |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 success | det |
| 47 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 success | amod |
| 48 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 had | obl |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 affliction | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 affliction | cc |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 affliction | nmod:poss |
| 52 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | parataxis |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 diminishing | punct |
| 54 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 56 diminishing | mark |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 instead | fixed |
| 56 | diminishing | diminish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 52 affliction | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 increased | punct |
| 58 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 affliction | parataxis |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Prince | the diligent search | after Ahmed | Prince's affliction parataxis; all pains conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Product | ||
| 2 | despatch | participle | Prince not said here | messengers | to all provinces of Prince's kingdom; with orders to the governors | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | oblige | infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 5 | return | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | to court result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result | ||||
| 6 | take | past | Prince | all pains not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent pain=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | have | past | Prince not said here | the desired success | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | desire | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 9 | diminish | gerund | Prince not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 10 | increase | participle | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 11 | afflict | Prince | nom affliction «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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