The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 35
The prince found it large enough to shelter two armies as numerous as that of the sultan his father.
Who acts: prince · What happens: find, shelter · To what, where: treasurer, two armies
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), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 found | xcomp |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 5 large | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 shelter | mark |
| 8 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 large | advcl |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 armies | nummod |
| 10 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shelter | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 numerous | advmod |
| 12 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shelter | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 that | case |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 numerous | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sultan | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sultan | det |
| 17 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 that | nmod |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sultan | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the prince | treasurer | large property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | shelter | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | two armies | numerous property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |
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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