The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 70
The grand vizier, anxious to give his king some ease, proposed to send for and consult a sorceress, of whom he had heard many wonders.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: give, propose, send, consult, hear · To what, where: ease, king, grand vizier, sorceress, many wonders
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vizier | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vizier | amod |
| 3 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 anxious | punct |
| 5 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vizier | amod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 anxious | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 king | nmod:poss |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 ease | det |
| 11 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proposed | punct |
| 13 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 vizier | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 send | mark |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 proposed | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 send | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 consult | cc |
| 18 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 send | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sorceress | det |
| 20 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 consult | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 heard | punct |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 whom | case |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 heard | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | aux |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 consult | advcl |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wonders | amod |
| 28 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 heard | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vizier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | to-infinitive | some ease | Prince's king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient ease=Theme | ||||
| 2 | propose | participle | the grand vizier not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | consult | infinitive | a sorceress | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorceress=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect | Prince | many wonders | whom obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wonder=Stimulus |
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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