The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 7
Prince Ahmed, hearing this request, was in the greatest trouble what answer to make.
Who acts: Prince Ahmed · What happens: hear, be, make · To what, where: request, greatest trouble
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 (Prince 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ahmed | compound |
| 2 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 trouble | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hearing | punct |
| 4 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Ahmed | acl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 request | det |
| 6 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hearing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahmed | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 trouble | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 trouble | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trouble | det |
| 11 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 trouble | amod |
| 12 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 14 answer | det |
| 14 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trouble | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 answer | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | Prince Ahmed not said here | this request | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer request=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Prince Ahmed | the greatest trouble | what answer obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Prince Ahmed not said here | 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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