The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 28
Noor-Jehaun returned presently with a small case concealed in the palm of her hand, and presented it to her mistress, who gave it to Prince Ahmed to look at.
Who acts: Noor, mistress · What happens: return, conceal, present, give, look · To what, where: small case, palm, hand, mistress, Prince Ahmed
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 (Noor, mistress), 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 | Noor | Noor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jehaun | punct |
| 3 | Jehaun | Jehaun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Noor | flat |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 case | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 case | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 case | amod |
| 9 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 10 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 case | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 palm | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palm | det |
| 13 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 concealed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 palm | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 presented | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 presented | cc |
| 19 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 presented | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 mistress | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 presented | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 gave | nsubj |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 mistress | acl:relcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Ahmed | case |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Ahmed | compound |
| 30 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 look | mark |
| 32 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 gave | advcl |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 look | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Noor | with a small case; presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | conceal | participle | a small case not said here | the palm of Noor's hand | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in palm=Location | ||||
| 3 | present | past | Noor not said here | hand | Noor's mistress | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mistress=Recipient | |||
| 4 | give | past | Noor's mistress | hand | Prince Ahmed | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ahmed=Recipient | |||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | Noor's mistress not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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