The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 1
When the sorceress had finished her speech, the sultan asked his councillors if they had anything better to propose; and finding them all silent, determined to follow her advice.
Who acts: sultan, councillors, her · What happens: finish, ask, have, propose, find, follow · To what, where: sorceress, councillors, anything, advice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, councillors, her), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sorceress | det |
| 3 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 speech | nmod:poss |
| 7 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sultan | det |
| 10 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 speech | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 councillors | nmod:poss |
| 13 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | advcl |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 anything | amod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 propose | mark |
| 20 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 better | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 finding | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 finding | cc |
| 23 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 finished | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 finding | obj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 finding | obj |
| 26 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 all | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 determined | punct |
| 28 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 silent | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 follow | mark |
| 30 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 determined | xcomp |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 advice | nmod:poss |
| 32 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 follow | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect · passive | the sorceress | her speech obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the sultan | sultan's councillors | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent councillor=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | councillors = councillor | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 4 | propose | to-infinitive | councillors = councillor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find | gerund | councillors = councillor | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme all=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | follow | to-infinitive | councillors = councillor not said here | her advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 7 | speak | her = she | nom speech «communication 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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