The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 6
The sultan embraced him with great joy, complaining at the same time, with a fatherly tenderness, of the affliction his long absence had occasioned.
Who acts: sultan, affliction, Prince · What happens: embrace, complain, occasion, absent · To what, where: Prince, long absence
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, affliction, 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 sultan | det |
| 2 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 embraced | nsubj |
| 3 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 embraced | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 joy | amod |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 embraced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 complaining | punct |
| 9 | complaining | complain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 embraced | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 complaining | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tenderness | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tenderness | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tenderness | det |
| 17 | fatherly | fatherly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tenderness | amod |
| 18 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 complaining | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 affliction | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 affliction | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 affliction | det |
| 22 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tenderness | appos |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 absence | nmod:poss |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 absence | amod |
| 25 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 occasioned | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 occasioned | aux |
| 27 | occasioned | occasion | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 affliction | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | the sultan | Prince | with great joy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | complain speech: other | gerund | the sultan not said here | time | with a fatherly tenderness | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | occasion | past · perfect · passive | the affliction not said here | Prince's long absence | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | absent | Prince | nom absence «state 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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