The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 78
The sorceress returned the next day and said to the sultan, “Sire, I have not been able to discover anything more than that Prince Ahmed is alive, but as to where he is I cannot tell.”
Who acts: sorceress · What happens: return, say, not be, discover, be · To what, where: sultan, anything · 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 (sorceress), 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 sorceress | det |
| 2 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sultan | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sultan | det |
| 11 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sire | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sire | punct |
| 14 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sultan | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 able | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 able | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 able | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 able | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 able | cop |
| 20 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 discover | mark |
| 22 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 able | xcomp |
| 23 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 discover | obj |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 alive | advmod |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 Ahmed | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 Ahmed | nsubj |
| 27 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Ahmed | compound |
| 28 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 alive | obl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 alive | cop |
| 30 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 discover | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 tell | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 tell | cc |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 is | mark |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 as | fixed |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 is | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 is | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 tell | cop |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 tell | nsubj |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 tell | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 tell | advmod |
| 41 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 returned | parataxis |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 tell | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the sorceress | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the sorceress not said here | the sultan and Sire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sultan=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present · perfect | the sorceress = sorceress | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | discover in a quote | to-infinitive | the sorceress = sorceress not said here | anything | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the sorceress = sorceress not said here | than Prince Ahmed that; alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not is in a quote | can · present | the sorceress = sorceress | tell property | tree rules |
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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