The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 88
After having informed his councillors of all he had learned, and of his fears of the influence of the fairy over his son, one of them said, “The author of this mischief is in your majesty’s power.
Who acts: sultan, fears, author · What happens: inform, learn, say, be, fear · To what, where: councillors, power, influence · 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, fears, author), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 informed | mark |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 informed | aux |
| 3 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 said | ccomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 councillors | nmod:poss |
| 5 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 informed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 councillors | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 learned | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 learned | aux |
| 10 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 all | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fears | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fears | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fears | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fears | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 said | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 influence | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 influence | det |
| 18 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fears | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fairy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fairy | det |
| 21 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 influence | nmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 son | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fairy | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 said | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 power | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 power | punct |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 author | det |
| 33 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 power | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 mischief | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 mischief | det |
| 36 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 author | nmod |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 power | cop |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 power | case |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 40 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 power | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 majesty | case |
| 42 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 said | ccomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | gerund · perfect | sultan's councillors of all | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent councillor=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | learn | past · perfect | sultan | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | sultan's fears of the influence of the fairy over sultan's son | one of councillors nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the author of this mischief | your majesty's power | your majesty nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fear | sultan | the influence of the fairy over sultan's son | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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