The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 33
The Sultan of the Indies said this that his courtiers might not know the impression their words had made on his mind.
Who acts: Sultan, courtiers, impression · What happens: say, not know, make, word, mind · To what, where: this, impression, words, mind · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sultan, courtiers, impression), 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 | 6 said | nsubj |
| 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 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 know | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 impression | det |
| 15 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | obj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 words | nmod:poss |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 impression | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 mind | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Sultan of the Indies | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | might | sultan's courtiers | the impression | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer impression=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | the impression not said here | courtiers's words | sultan's mind | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 4 | word | courtiers = courtier | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | mind | sultan | nom mind «cognition 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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