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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 47

The sultan was much pleased, and to encourage her presented her with a diamond of great value, telling her it was only a forerunner of the ample recompense she should receive when she had performed the important service which he left to her management.

Who acts: sultan, sorceress, value, important service · What happens: be, encourage, present, tell, receive, perform · To what, where: steepness, sorceress, forerunner, important service, management · 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, sorceress, value, important service), 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

detnsubjcopadvmodpunctccmarkparataxisnsubjccompobjcasedetoblcaseamodnmodpunctcsubjiobjnsubjcopadvmoddetccompcasedetamodnmodnsubjauxxcompadvmodnsubjauxadvcldetamodobjnsubjnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:possoblpunctrootTheDETsultanNOUNwasAUXmuchADVpleasedADJ,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTencourageVERBherPRONpresentedVERBherPRONwithADPaDETdiamondNOUNofADPgreatADJvalueNOUN,PUNCTtellingVERBherPRONitPRONwasAUXonlyADVaDETforerunnerNOUNofADPtheDETampleADJrecompenseNOUNshePRONshouldAUXreceiveVERBwhenADVshePRONhadAUXperformedVERBtheDETimportantADJserviceNOUNwhichPRONhePRONleftVERBtoADPherPRONmanagementNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 sultandet
2sultansultanNOUNNumber=Sing5 pleasednsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 pleasedcop
4muchmuchADV_5 pleasedadvmod
5pleasedpleasedADJDegree=Posrootroot
6,,PUNCT_9 encouragepunct
7andandCCONJ_9 encouragecc
8totoPART_9 encouragemark
9encourageencourageVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin5 pleasedparataxis
10hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 presentednsubj
11presentedpresentVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 encourageccomp
12hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 presentedobj
13withwithADP_15 diamondcase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 diamonddet
15diamonddiamondNOUNNumber=Sing11 presentedobl
16ofofADP_18 valuecase
17greatgreatADJDegree=Pos18 valueamod
18valuevalueNOUNNumber=Sing15 diamondnmod
19,,PUNCT_20 tellingpunct
20tellingtellVERBVerbForm=Ger33 receivecsubj
21hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 tellingiobj
22ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 forerunnernsubj
23wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 forerunnercop
24onlyonlyADV_26 forerunneradvmod
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 forerunnerdet
26forerunnerforerunnerNOUNNumber=Sing20 tellingccomp
27ofofADP_30 recompensecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 recompensedet
29ampleampleADJDegree=Pos30 recompenseamod
30recompenserecompenseNOUNNumber=Sing26 forerunnernmod
31sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 receivensubj
32shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin33 receiveaux
33receivereceiveVERBVerbForm=Inf9 encouragexcomp
34whenwhenADVPronType=Int37 performedadvmod
35sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 performednsubj
36hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin37 performedaux
37performedperformVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part33 receiveadvcl
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 servicedet
39importantimportantADJDegree=Pos40 serviceamod
40serviceserviceNOUNNumber=Sing37 performedobj
41whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel43 leftnsubj
42hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs43 leftnsubj
43leftleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin40 serviceacl:relcl
44totoADP_46 managementcase
45herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs46 managementnmod:poss
46managementmanagementNOUNNumber=Sing43 leftobl
47..PUNCT_5 pleasedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe sultanpleased propertytree rules
2encourageto-infinitivevn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3presentpastsorceresssteepnesswith a diamond of great valuevn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with diamond=Theme
4tell speech: assertgerundsorceressvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5is apastvaluea forerunnerof the ample recompensetree rules
6receive not said to happenshouldsorceressvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7performpast · perfectsorceressthe important servicevn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme
8leavepastthe important servicesorceress's managementsultan nsubjvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to management=Initial_Location
9managesorceressnom management «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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