The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 42
The sultan expressed great obligation to the prince for so noble a present, desiring him to return his thanks to the fairy; and to show what a value he set on it, ordered it to be carefully laid up in his treasury.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: express, desire, return, show, set, order · To what, where: great obligation, prince, sultan, thanks, fairy, value
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), 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 | 3 expressed | nsubj |
| 3 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 obligation | amod |
| 5 | obligation | obligation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expressed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expressed | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 present | case |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 noble | advmod |
| 11 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 present | amod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 present | det |
| 13 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expressed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 desiring | punct |
| 15 | desiring | desire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 expressed | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 desiring | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 return | mark |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 desiring | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 thanks | nmod:poss |
| 20 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 return | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 fairy | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fairy | det |
| 23 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 return | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 show | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 show | cc |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 show | mark |
| 27 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 expressed | parataxis |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 show | ccomp |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 value | det |
| 30 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 what | nsubj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 set | nsubj |
| 32 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 value | acl:relcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 set | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ordered | punct |
| 36 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 expressed | parataxis |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ordered | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 laid | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 laid | aux:pass |
| 40 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 41 laid | advmod |
| 41 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 ordered | advcl |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 laid | compound:prt |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 treasury | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 45 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 laid | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past | the sultan | great obligation | the prince | for a noble present | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent obligation=Theme to prince=Recipient | ||
| 2 | desire | gerund | the sultan not said here | sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sultan not said here | sultan's thanks | the fairy | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to fairy=Destination | |||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | what a value ccomp | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | set | past | sultan | a value not said here | value | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent value=Theme on it=Destination | |||
| 6 | order | past | value | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 7 | lay up | to-infinitive · passive | sultan's treasury | carefully property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in treasury=Destination |
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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