The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 48
The sorceress, knowing the time when Prince Ahmed would again visit his father, went shortly before that time to the foot of the rock where she had lost sight of him and his attendants, and waited there to execute the project she had formed.
Who acts: sorceress, Prince Ahmed · What happens: know, visit, go, lose, wait, execute · To what, where: father, foot, sight, project, Ahmed
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, Prince Ahmed), 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 | 16 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knowing | punct |
| 4 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 sorceress | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knowing | obj |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 visit | mark |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ahmed | compound |
| 9 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 visit | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 visit | aux |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 visit | advmod |
| 12 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 knowing | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visit | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sorceress | punct |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 foot | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 foot | det |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rock | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rock | det |
| 26 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 foot | nmod |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 lost | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lost | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lost | aux |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 rock | acl:relcl |
| 31 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lost | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sight | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 attendants | cc |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 36 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 him | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 waited | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 waited | cc |
| 39 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 40 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 waited | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 execute | mark |
| 42 | execute | execute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 waited | advcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 project | det |
| 44 | project | project | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 execute | obj |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 formed | nsubj |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 formed | aux |
| 47 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 project | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | the sorceress not said here | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | visit | would | Prince Ahmed | Ahmed's father | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | go | past | the sorceress | the foot of the rock | time | shortly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | sorceress | sight of Ahmed | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | wait | past | the sorceress not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | execute | to-infinitive | the sorceress not said here | the project | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Patient | ||||
| 7 | form | past · perfect | sorceress | the project not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location project=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sight | Ahmed | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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