The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 1
After Prince Ahmed had expressed to Perie Banou his sincere gratitude, the fairy summoned twenty horsemen, well mounted and equipped, to attend him.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: express, summon, mount, equip, attend · To what, where: twenty horsemen, fairy
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 Ahmed | case |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ahmed | compound |
| 3 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 expressed | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 expressed | aux |
| 5 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Perie | case |
| 7 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 expressed | obl:agent |
| 8 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Perie | flat |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sincere | sincere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gratitude | amod |
| 11 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expressed | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 summoned | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fairy | det |
| 14 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 summoned | nsubj |
| 15 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gratitude | acl:relcl |
| 16 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 horsemen | nummod |
| 17 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 summoned | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mounted | punct |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 mounted | advmod |
| 20 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 horsemen | acl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 equipped | cc |
| 22 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 mounted | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 attend | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 attend | mark |
| 25 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 summoned | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 attend | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past · perfect | after Prince Ahmed | Perie obl:agent; Perie's sincere gratitude parataxis | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | summon | past | the fairy | twenty horsemen | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horseman=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | mount | participle | twenty horsemen not said here | well property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | equip | participle | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | attend | to-infinitive | the fairy not said here | fairy | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Goal |
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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