The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 79
The Sultan of the Indies was obliged to remain satisfied with this answer, which in a small degree relieved his anxiety about the prince.
What happens: oblige, remain, relieve · To what, where: Sultan, answer, small degree
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: 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Indies | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Indies | det |
| 5 | Indies | indy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Sultan | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 obliged | aux:pass |
| 7 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 remain | mark |
| 9 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 obliged | xcomp |
| 10 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 remain | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 answer | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 answer | det |
| 13 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 satisfied | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 relieved | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 relieved | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 degree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 degree | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 degree | amod |
| 19 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 relieved | obl |
| 20 | relieved | relieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 answer | acl:relcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 anxiety | nmod:poss |
| 22 | anxiety | anxiety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 relieved | obj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 prince | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 relieved | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | the Sultan of the Indies | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | remain | to-infinitive | satisfied property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | relieve | past | this answer | a small degree | about the prince; sultan's anxiety obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer anxiety=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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