The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 7
“Sire,” replied Prince Ahmed, “I could not bear to resign the Princess Nouronnihar to my brother Ali, and I felt that my arrow, though it could not be found, had gone beyond his.
Who acts: Sire · What happens: reply, not bear, resign, feel, not find, go · To what, where: Prince Ahmed, Princess Nouronnihar, brother, Sire · 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 (Sire), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ahmed | compound |
| 7 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bear | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bear | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bear | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bear | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 bear | advmod |
| 13 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 resign | mark |
| 15 | resign | resign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bear | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Nouronnihar | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 18 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 resign | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 brother | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 resign | obl |
| 22 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 brother | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 felt | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 arrow | mark |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 29 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 felt | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 found | punct |
| 31 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 36 found | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 found | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 found | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 found | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 found | aux:pass |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 felt | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gone | punct |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 gone | aux |
| 39 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 felt | conj |
| 40 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 41 his | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 gone | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sire | Prince Ahmed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not bear in a quote | could | Sire | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | resign in a quote | to-infinitive | Sire not said here | the Princess Nouronnihar | my brother | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nouronnihar=Theme to brother=Recipient | |||
| 4 | feel in a quote | past | Sire | my arrow advcl | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not find in a quote | could · passive | Sire | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | past · perfect | Sire not said here | beyond Ahmed | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond his=Location |
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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