The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 79
They at last led her to the iron gate at which Prince Ahmed had brought her in; and after she had taken her leave of them, and thanked them for their trouble, they opened it, and wished her a good journey.
Who acts: words, sorceress · What happens: lead, bring in, take, thank, open, wish · To what, where: sorceress, iron gate, Prince Ahmed, leave, words
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 (words, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 They | nmod |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 led | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gate | compound |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 brought | obl |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ahmed | compound |
| 13 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gate | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 brought | compound:prt |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 taken | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 taken | cc |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 23 taken | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 taken | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 taken | aux |
| 23 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 led | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 leave | nmod:poss |
| 25 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taken | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 leave | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thanked | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 thanked | cc |
| 30 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thanked | obj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 trouble | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 34 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thanked | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 opened | punct |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 opened | nsubj |
| 37 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | parataxis |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 opened | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 wished | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 wished | cc |
| 41 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 wished | obj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 journey | det |
| 44 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 journey | amod |
| 45 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 wished | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | words = word | sorceress | the iron gate | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to gate=Destination | |||
| 2 | bring in | past · perfect · passive | Prince Ahmed | the iron gate | sorceress obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | sorceress | sorceress's leave of words | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank | past | words = word not said here | words = word | for words's trouble | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for trouble=Attribute | |||
| 5 | open | past | words = word | leave | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wish | past | words = word not said here | sorceress | a good journey obj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | trouble | words = word | nom trouble «cognition 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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