The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 3
A charger, which was most richly caparisoned, and as beautiful a creature as any in the sultan’s stables, was brought to him, and he set forward on his journey.
Who acts: Ahmed · What happens: caparison, bring, set forward, journey · To what, where: charger, Ahmed, journey
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 (Ahmed), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 charger | det |
| 2 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 caparisoned | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 caparisoned | obj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 caparisoned | aux:pass |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 richly | advmod |
| 7 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 8 caparisoned | advmod |
| 8 | caparisoned | caparison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 charger | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 creature | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 creature | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 beautiful | case |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 creature | amod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 creature | det |
| 14 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caparisoned | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 any | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 creature | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 stables | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sultan | det |
| 19 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stables | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 sultan | case |
| 21 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 creature | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 charger | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 brought | aux:pass |
| 24 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 brought | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 set | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 set | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 set | nsubj |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 brought | conj |
| 31 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 30 set | advmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 journey | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 journey | nmod:poss |
| 34 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 set | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caparison | past · passive | a charger | a beautiful creature as any in the sultan's stables obl; richly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | a charger | Ahmed | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | set forward | past | Ahmed | Ahmed's journey | forward property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination | |||
| 4 | journey | Ahmed | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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