The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 2
The next day, when the prince came into his father’s presence, the sultan thus addressed him, “My son, I congratulate you on your marriage with a fairy, who I hear is worthy of your love.
Who acts: prince, sultan, fairy, your · What happens: come, address, congratulate, hear, be, marry · To what, where: presence, prince, you, marriage
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 (prince, sultan, fairy, your), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 presence | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presence | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 father | case |
| 13 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 addressed | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sultan | det |
| 16 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 addressed | nsubj |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 18 addressed | advmod |
| 18 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 addressed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 son | punct |
| 22 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 addressed | vocative |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 congratulate | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 congratulate | nsubj |
| 26 | congratulate | congratulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 congratulate | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 marriage | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 30 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 congratulate | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 fairy | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 fairy | det |
| 33 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 marriage | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hear | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 hear | nsubj |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 hear | nsubj |
| 37 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 worthy | cop |
| 39 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 hear | xcomp |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 love | case |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 love | nmod:poss |
| 42 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 worthy | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the prince | prince's father's presence | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | address | past | the sultan | prince | My son vocative; thus property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||
| 3 | congratulate in a quote | present | the sultan = sultan | you | your marriage with a fairy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 4 | hear in a quote | present | a fairy | I nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | a fairy not said here | of your love; worthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | marry in a quote | your | with a fairy | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent with=obl | |||||
| 7 | love in a quote | your | nom love «feeling 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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