The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 28
At last the sultan’s counsellors, who judged of Prince Ahmed’s power by the splendor of his appearance, sought to make the sultan jealous of his son.
What happens: judge, seek, make · To what, where: last counsellors, splendor, sultan
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 counsellors | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sultan | det |
| 4 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 counsellors | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 sultan | case |
| 6 | counsellors | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 judged | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 judged | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 judged | nsubj |
| 9 | judged | judge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 power | case |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ahmed | compound |
| 12 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 power | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Ahmed | case |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 judged | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 splendor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 splendor | det |
| 17 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 judged | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 appearance | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 20 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 splendor | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sought | punct |
| 22 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 splendor | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sought | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sultan | det |
| 26 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 27 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 make | xcomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 son | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 son | nmod:poss |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 jealous | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 judged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | past | the sultan's last counsellors | of Prince Ahmed's power; by the splendor of sultan's appearance; who nsubj | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent of power=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | participle | the splendor of sultan's appearance not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the sultan | jealous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sultan=Product |
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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