The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 70
The two attendants returned in an hour’s time and found the sorceress seated on the sofa; who, when she saw them open the door of the apartment, cried out, “Oh, the admirable potion!
Who acts: sorceress · What happens: return, find, seat, see, open, cry out · To what, where: two attendants, sorceress, sofa, attendants, door, admirable potion
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), 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 attendants | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 attendants | nummod |
| 3 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 attendants | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sorceress | det |
| 13 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 sorceress | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 sofa | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sofa | det |
| 17 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seated | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 open | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 open | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 saw | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 who | acl:relcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | obj |
| 25 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sorceress | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 door | det |
| 27 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 open | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 apartment | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 apartment | det |
| 30 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 door | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cried | punct |
| 32 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 open | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 cried | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 potion | punct |
| 35 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 potion | punct |
| 36 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 40 potion | discourse |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Oh | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 potion | det |
| 39 | admirable | admirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 potion | amod |
| 40 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cried | obl |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 attendants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | the two attendants not said here | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the sorceress | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorceress=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seat | participle | the sorceress not said here | the sofa | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | past | sorceress | attendants = attendant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | open | infinitive | the sorceress | the door of the apartment | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cry out speech: express | participle | the sorceress not said here | the admirable potion | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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