The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 27
Perie Banou then sent for her treasurer, to whom, when she came, she said, “Noor-Jehaun” (which was her name), “bring me the largest tent in my treasury.”
Who acts: Perie, Noor · What happens: send, come, say, be, bring · To what, where: name, largest tent, Perie, treasury · 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 (Perie, Noor), 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 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Perie | flat |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 treasurer | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 treasurer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whom | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 came | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 whom | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Noor | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Noor | punct |
| 20 | Noor | noor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Jehaun | punct |
| 22 | Jehaun | Jehaun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Noor | appos |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Jehaun | punct |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 28 name | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 name | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 name | cop |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 name | nmod:poss |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Noor | appos |
| 29 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 28 name | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bring | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 bring | punct |
| 32 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 bring | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tent | det |
| 35 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 tent | amod |
| 36 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bring | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 treasury | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 39 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bring | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 bring | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Perie | then | for Perie's treasurer; whom obl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to whom=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past | Perie | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Perie | Noor nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Noor | Noor's name | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | infinitive | the largest tent | Perie | my treasury | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination tent=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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