The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 44
Therefore, yet more intent on his ruin, he went to consult the sorceress again, who advised him to engage the prince to bring him some of the water of the fountain of lions.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: go, consult, advise, engage, bring, ruin · To what, where: sorceress, sultan, prince, some
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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 5 intent | cc |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 intent | amod |
| 5 | intent | intent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Therefore | conj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ruin | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ruin | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 intent | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 consult | mark |
| 13 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sorceress | det |
| 15 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 consult | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 consult | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 advised | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 advised | nsubj |
| 19 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 advised | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 engage | mark |
| 22 | engage | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 advised | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 prince | det |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 engage | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 bring | mark |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 engage | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | obj |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 bring | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 water | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 water | det |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 some | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fountain | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fountain | det |
| 34 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 water | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 lions | case |
| 36 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 fountain | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sultan | yet | therefore property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | consult | to-infinitive | sultan not said here | the sorceress | again | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorceress=Theme | |||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past | sultan | who nsubj | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | engage not said to happen | to-infinitive | sultan not said here | the prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bring | to-infinitive | sultan not said here | some of the water of the fountain of lions | sultan | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination some=Theme | |||
| 6 | ruin | sultan | nom ruin «state 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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