The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 46
The sorceress was obliged to be satisfied with the insufficient discovery she had made, and returned to communicate it to the sultan; but at the same time informed him that she did not despair of obtaining the information he wished.
Who acts: sorceress, despair, Prince · What happens: oblige, be, make, return, communicate, inform · To what, where: sorceress, insufficient discovery, sight, sultan, Prince, despair · 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 (sorceress, despair, 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 | 2 sorceress | det |
| 2 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | aux:pass |
| 4 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 satisfied | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 satisfied | cop |
| 7 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 obliged | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 discovery | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 discovery | det |
| 10 | insufficient | insufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 discovery | amod |
| 11 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 satisfied | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 discovery | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 returned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 returned | cc |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obliged | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 communicate | mark |
| 19 | communicate | communicate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 returned | xcomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 communicate | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 sultan | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sultan | det |
| 23 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 communicate | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 informed | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 informed | cc |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 informed | obl |
| 30 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 obliged | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 informed | iobj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 did | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 did | nsubj |
| 34 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 informed | ccomp |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 despair | advmod |
| 36 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 did | obj |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 38 obtaining | mark |
| 38 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 despair | acl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 information | det |
| 40 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 obtaining | obj |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 wished | nsubj |
| 42 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 information | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | the sorceress | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | with the insufficient discovery; satisfied property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | sorceress | the insufficient discovery not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discovery=Product | ||||
| 4 | return | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | communicate | to-infinitive | sight | the sultan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to sultan=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | inform speech: other | participle | Prince | time | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | do | past | sorceress | despair | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent despair=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | obtain | gerund | despair not said here | the information | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset information=Theme | ||||
| 9 | wish | past | Prince | the information not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot information=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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