The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 49
The next morning as Prince Ahmed went out as usual at the iron door, with his attendants, on his journey to the capital, he saw a woman lying with her head on a rock, and complaining as if she was in great pain.
Who acts: next morning, Ahmed, woman, sorceress · What happens: go out, see, lie, complain, be, journey · To what, where: iron door, woman, rock, great pain
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 (next morning, Ahmed, woman, sorceress), 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 | 7 went | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 Ahmed | case |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ahmed | compound |
| 6 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | nmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 went | compound:prt |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 usual | case |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 13 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 door | amod |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attendants | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 attendants | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 18 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 journey | punct |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 journey | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 journey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attendants | appos |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 capital | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 capital | det |
| 25 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 journey | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saw | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 woman | det |
| 30 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obj |
| 31 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 woman | acl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 head | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lying | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 rock | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 rock | det |
| 37 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lying | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 complaining | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 complaining | cc |
| 40 | complaining | complain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 saw | advcl |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 pain | mark |
| 42 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 47 pain | mark |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 pain | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 pain | cop |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 pain | case |
| 46 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 pain | amod |
| 47 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 complaining | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the next morning as Prince Ahmed | the iron door | as usual; with Ahmed's attendants | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with attendant=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | see | past | Ahmed | a woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a woman not said here | a rock | with sorceress's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | |||
| 4 | complain speech: other | gerund | Ahmed not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | sorceress | great pain | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | journey | Ahmed | to the capital | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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