The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 77
The sultan granted her the time, and promised to recompense her richly.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: grant, promise, recompense · To what, where: Sire
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), 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 granted | nsubj |
| 3 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 granted | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granted | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 promised | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 promised | cc |
| 9 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 granted | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 recompense | mark |
| 11 | recompense | recompense | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 promised | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 recompense | obj |
| 13 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 11 recompense | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | the sultan | Sire | time | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the sultan not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | recompense not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sultan not said here | Sire | richly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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