The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 40
He took the tent, and after he had admired its smallness he had it set up in the great plain before mentioned, and found it large enough to cover with ease his whole army.
Who acts: sultan, smallness · What happens: take, admire, have, set up, mention, find · To what, where: tent, smallness, great plain, whole army
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, smallness), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tent | det |
| 4 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 admired | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 admired | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 admired | aux |
| 10 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 had | advcl |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 smallness | nmod:poss |
| 12 | smallness | smallness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 admired | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | obj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 had | xcomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 plain | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plain | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plain | amod |
| 21 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 mentioned | mark |
| 23 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 set | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | obj |
| 28 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 found | xcomp |
| 29 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 28 large | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 cover | mark |
| 31 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 large | advcl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 ease | case |
| 33 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cover | obl |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 army | nmod:poss |
| 35 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 army | amod |
| 36 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cover | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | sultan | the tent | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | admire | past · perfect | sultan | return's smallness | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smallness=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | sultan | smallness | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set up | participle | smallness not said here | the great plain | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in plain=Destination | ||||
| 5 | mention speech: other | participle | smallness not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | find | past | sultan not said here | smallness | large property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 7 | cover | to-infinitive | sultan not said here | sultan's whole army | with ease | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent army=Destination with ease=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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