The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 80
Prince Ahmed still adhered to his resolution not again to ask permission to leave the fairy Perie Banou, but he frequently talked about his father, and she perceived that he retained his wish to see him.
Who acts: Prince, permission, fairy · What happens: adhere, ask, leave, talk, perceive, retain · To what, where: permission, fairy, wish, Prince
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 (Prince, permission, fairy), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 adhered | nsubj |
| 2 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 adhered | advmod |
| 4 | adhered | adhere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 resolution | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 resolution | nmod:poss |
| 7 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adhered | obl |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 again | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 ask | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ask | mark |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 adhered | advcl |
| 12 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ask | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 leave | mark |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ask | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fairy | det |
| 16 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obj |
| 17 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fairy | appos |
| 18 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Perie | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 talked | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 talked | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 talked | nsubj |
| 22 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 23 talked | advmod |
| 23 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 adhered | conj |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 father | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 talked | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 perceived | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 perceived | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 perceived | nsubj |
| 30 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 talked | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 retained | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 retained | nsubj |
| 33 | retained | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 perceived | advcl |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wish | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 retained | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 see | mark |
| 37 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 retained | advcl |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 see | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 adhered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adhere | past | Prince | still | to Prince's resolution | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to resolution=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | permission | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | permission not said here | the fairy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | talk | past | Prince | about Prince's father; frequently property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about father=Topic | ||||
| 5 | perceive | past | fairy | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | retain | past | Prince | Prince's wish | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | resolve | Prince | nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | wish | Prince | nom wish «feeling 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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