The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 71
The sultan consented, and the grand vizier, on her arrival, introduced her into the presence of the ruler.
Who acts: sultan, grand vizier, Vizier · What happens: consent, introduce, arrive · To what, where: world, presence
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 (sultan, grand vizier, Vizier), 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 | 2 sultan | det |
| 2 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 introduced | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 introduced | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vizier | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vizier | amod |
| 8 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 introduced | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 arrival | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 arrival | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vizier | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 vizier | punct |
| 14 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 introduced | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 presence | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 presence | det |
| 18 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 introduced | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ruler | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ruler | det |
| 21 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 presence | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the sultan | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | introduce | past | the grand vizier and Vizier's arrival | world | the presence of the ruler | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 3 | arrive | Vizier | nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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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