The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 72
The sultan said to the sorceress, “Canst thou tell me by thy art and skill what is become of Prince Ahmed my son?
Who acts: sultan, thou · What happens: say, tell, become · To what, where: sorceress, son, skill · 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 (sultan, thou), 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 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sorceress | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sorceress | det |
| 6 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 9 | Canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 art | case |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 art | nmod:poss |
| 15 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 skill | cc |
| 17 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 art | conj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 become | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 become | aux:pass |
| 20 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 skill | acl:relcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Ahmed | case |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ahmed | compound |
| 23 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 become | obl |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | iobj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the sultan | the sorceress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sorceress=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | thou | my son | by thy art and skill; me iobj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient son=Topic | |||
| 3 | become in a quote | present · passive | skill | of Prince Ahmed | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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