The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 39
The sultan, persuaded that the tent he had asked for was beyond all possibility, was greatly surprised at the prince’s speedy return.
Who acts: sultan, tent, prince · What happens: persuade, ask, be, return · To what, where: tent, speedy return
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 (sultan, tent, 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 sultan | det |
| 2 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 persuaded | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sultan | punct |
| 4 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 possibility | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tent | det |
| 7 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 possibility | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | aux |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 tent | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 asked | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 possibility | cop |
| 13 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 15 possibility | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 possibility | det |
| 15 | possibility | possibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 persuaded | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 surprised | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 surprised | cop |
| 18 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 19 surprised | advmod |
| 19 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 persuaded | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 return | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 return | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 prince | case |
| 24 | speedy | speedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 return | amod |
| 25 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 surprised | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 persuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | past | the sultan | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · perfect | sultan | the tent not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tent=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the tent | beyond all possibility | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the sultan not said here | the prince's speedy return | greatly, surprised property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | return | the prince | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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