The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 66
In the meantime the two women, to whom Perie Banou had given her orders, conveyed the sorceress into an elegant apartment, richly furnished.
Who acts: woman · What happens: give, convey, furnish, order · To what, where: Perie, sorceress, meantime
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 (woman), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conveyed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 women | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 women | nummod |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 meantime | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 whom | case |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 given | obl |
| 10 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Perie | flat |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 women | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 orders | nmod:poss |
| 15 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 given | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 meantime | punct |
| 17 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sorceress | det |
| 19 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conveyed | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 apartment | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 apartment | det |
| 22 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 apartment | amod |
| 23 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conveyed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 furnished | punct |
| 25 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 26 furnished | advmod |
| 26 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 conveyed | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 conveyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | Perie | to the two women; woman's orders obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient order=Theme | ||||
| 2 | convey | past | the sorceress | the meantime the two women | into a elegant apartment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorceress=Topic | |||
| 3 | furnish | participle | richly property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | order | woman | nom order «communication 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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