The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 82
The sultan, being informed of her arrival, sent for her to come into his apartment.
Who acts: sultan, Except · What happens: inform, send, come, arrive · To what, where: sultan, apartment
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, Except), 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 | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 informed | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 informed | aux:pass |
| 5 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sultan | acl:relcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 arrival | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 informed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sultan | punct |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sent | advcl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 apartment | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 17 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | gerund · passive | the sultan not said here | of Except's arrival | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: of arrival=Topic | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the sultan | for Except | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | the sultan not said here | sultan's apartment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into apartment=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | arrive | Except | nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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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