The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 52
The next morning Prince Ahmed returned to the fairy Perie Banou, and related to her sincerely and faithfully all that had passed at his father’s court from the giving of the tent, which he told her he received with the utmost gratitude, to the new request he had charged him to make.
Who acts: next morning, that, court, Ahmed · What happens: return, pass, give, tell, receive, charge · To what, where: court, tent, Ahmed, father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (next morning, that, court, Ahmed), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ahmed | compound |
| 5 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | appos |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 fairy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fairy | det |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 10 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fairy | appos |
| 11 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Perie | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 related | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 related | cc |
| 14 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 returned | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 related | obl |
| 17 | sincerely | sincerely | ADV | _ | 14 related | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 faithfully | cc |
| 19 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 17 sincerely | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 passed | det:predet |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 passed | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 passed | aux |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 related | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 court | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 court | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 father | case |
| 28 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passed | obl |
| 29 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 31 giving | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 giving | det |
| 31 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 court | acl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 tent | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 tent | det |
| 34 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 giving | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 told | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 told | obj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 told | nsubj |
| 38 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 tent | acl:relcl |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 told | iobj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 received | nsubj |
| 41 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 told | ccomp |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 gratitude | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 gratitude | det |
| 44 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 gratitude | amod |
| 45 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 received | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 charged | punct |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 request | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 request | det |
| 49 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 request | amod |
| 50 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 charged | obl |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 charged | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 charged | aux |
| 53 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 received | parataxis |
| 54 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 charged | iobj |
| 55 | to | to | PART | _ | 56 make | mark |
| 56 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 charged | advcl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the next morning | to the fairy result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fairy=Result | ||||
| 2 | pass | past · perfect | that | Ahmed's father's court | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at court=Location | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | Ahmed's father's court not said here | of the tent | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Ahmed | the tent | court | tree rules | |||
| 5 | receive | past | Ahmed | with the utmost gratitude | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | charge | past · perfect · passive | Ahmed | father | to the new request | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient he=Asset | |||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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