The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 33
Noor-Jehaun,” said she to her treasurer, taking the tent out of Prince Ahmed’s hands, “go and set it up, that he may judge whether the sultan his father will think it large enough.”
Who acts: Noor, Ahmed, sultan · What happens: say, take, go, set up, judge, think · To what, where: treasurer, tent, hands, hand · 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 (Noor, Ahmed, sultan), 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 | 6 said | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jehaun | punct |
| 3 | Jehaun | Jehaun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Noor | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noor | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Noor | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 treasurer | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 treasurer | nmod:poss |
| 10 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tent | det |
| 14 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ahmed | compound |
| 18 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Ahmed | case |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 taking | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 taking | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | obj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 set | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 judge | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 judge | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 judge | nsubj |
| 31 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 judge | aux |
| 32 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | parataxis |
| 33 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 39 think | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sultan | det |
| 35 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 think | nsubj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 father | nmod:poss |
| 37 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 think | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 think | aux |
| 39 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 judge | advcl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 think | obj |
| 41 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 think | xcomp |
| 42 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 41 large | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Noor | Noor's treasurer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to treasurer=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | gerund | the tent | Prince Ahmed's hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tent=Theme out hand=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | set up | infinitive | hand | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | |||||
| 5 | judge | may | Ahmed | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | future | the sultan | hand | sultan's father nsubj; large property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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