The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 35
For this end he sent privately for the sorceress, who was introduced by a secret door into his study.
Who acts: Ahmed, secret door · What happens: send, introduce, study · To what, where: study, sorceress
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, secret door), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | privately | privately | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sorceress | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sorceress | det |
| 9 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 introduced | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 introduced | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 introduced | aux:pass |
| 13 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sorceress | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 16 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 door | amod |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 introduced | obl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 study | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 study | nmod:poss |
| 20 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Ahmed | Ahmed's study | for this end | for the sorceress; privately property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | introduce | past · passive | a secret door | the sorceress | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | study | Ahmed | nom study «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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