The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 91
The sorceress asked of the sultan leave to speak, which being granted, she said, “If you arrest the prince, you must also detain his retinue.
Who acts: sorceress, you · What happens: ask, leave, speak, grant, say, arrest · To what, where: prince, retinue · 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 (sorceress, you), 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 sorceress | det |
| 2 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sultan | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sultan | det |
| 6 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 speak | mark |
| 9 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leave | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 granted | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 granted | aux:pass |
| 13 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 speak | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 detain | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 detain | punct |
| 19 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 arrest | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 arrest | nsubj |
| 21 | arrest | arrest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 detain | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrest | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arrest | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 detain | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 detain | aux |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 28 detain | advmod |
| 28 | detain | detain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 retinue | nmod:poss |
| 30 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 detain | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the sorceress | of the sultan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of sultan=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | grant | gerund · passive | which nsubj:pass | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | sorceress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | arrest a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the prince | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | ||||
| 7 | detain in a quote | must | you | sultan's retinue | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retinue=Theme |
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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