The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 37
He now comes to my court every month, but I cannot learn from him where he resides.
Who acts: Ahmed, I · What happens: come, not learn, reside · To what, where: court
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, I), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 comes | advmod |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 court | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 court | nmod:poss |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 month | det |
| 8 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 learn | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 learn | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 learn | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 learn | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 learn | advmod |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comes | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 learn | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 resides | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 resides | nsubj |
| 19 | resides | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 learn | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Ahmed | my court | now; month | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not learn | can | I | from Ahmed | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source | ||||
| 3 | reside | present | Ahmed | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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