The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 43
But in his secret bosom he felt greater jealousy than ever of his son, considering that by the fairy’s assistance he might effect his dethronement.
Who acts: sultan, fairy · What happens: feel, consider, effect, bosom, assist, dethrone · To what, where: greater jealousy, secret bosom, dethronement
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, fairy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 felt | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 bosom | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 4 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bosom | amod |
| 5 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 jealousy | amod |
| 9 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 son | case |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 son | advmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 son | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 considering | punct |
| 16 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 felt | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 effect | mark |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 assistance | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fairy | det |
| 20 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 fairy | case |
| 22 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 effect | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 effect | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 effect | aux |
| 25 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 considering | ccomp |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 dethronement | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dethronement | dethronement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 effect | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | sultan | greater jealousy | sultan's secret bosom | than sultan's son | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jealousy=Theme in bosom=Location | ||
| 2 | consider | gerund | sultan not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | effect | might | sultan | sultan's dethronement | by the fairy's assistance | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bosom | sultan | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | assist | the fairy | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | dethrone | sultan | nom dethronement «act transitive»: 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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