The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 42
The next morning Prince Ahmed set out by daybreak, without taking leave either of the sultan or any of his court, according to custom.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: set out, take, leave, accord · To what, where: either
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 (Prince), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj |
| 5 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Prince | flat |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 daybreak | case |
| 9 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 taking | mark |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 set | advcl |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 taking | xcomp |
| 14 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 leave | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sultan | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sultan | det |
| 17 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 either | nmod |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 any | cc |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 sultan | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 court | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 court | nmod:poss |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 any | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 custom | punct |
| 24 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 custom | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 according | fixed |
| 26 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Prince | morning | by daybreak | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | Prince not said here | custom advcl | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | Prince not said here | either of the sultan | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent either=Theme | ||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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