The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 87
As the sultan was consulting with his councillors when he was told of the sorceress’s arrival, he ordered her to follow him into the council chamber.
Who acts: sultan, sorceress · What happens: consult, tell, order, follow, arrive · To what, where: sultan, sorceress, council chamber · 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 (sultan, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 consulting | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sultan | det |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 consulting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 consulting | aux |
| 5 | consulting | consult | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 ordered | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 councillors | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 councillors | nmod:poss |
| 8 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 consulting | obl |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 told | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux:pass |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 consulting | advcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 arrival | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sorceress | det |
| 15 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 sorceress | case |
| 17 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 consulting | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ordered | nsubj |
| 20 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ordered | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 follow | mark |
| 23 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ordered | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 follow | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 chamber | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chamber | det |
| 27 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 chamber | compound |
| 28 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 follow | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past · progressive | the sultan | with sultan's councillors | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with councillor=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | sultan | of the sorceress's arrival | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | order | past | sultan | sorceress | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | sultan not said here | sultan | the council chamber | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme into chamber=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | arrive | the sorceress | 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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