The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 78
A number of officers came to attend the prince while he dismounted, and conduct him to the apartment of the sultan, who was at that time conversing with his councillors.
Who acts: number, prince, sultan, time · What happens: come, attend, dismount, conduct, be, converse · To what, where: prince, apartment
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 (number, prince, sultan, time), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 number | det |
| 2 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 officers | case |
| 4 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 number | nmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 attend | mark |
| 7 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attend | obj |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 dismounted | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dismounted | nsubj |
| 12 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 attend | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 conduct | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 conduct | cc |
| 15 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 conduct | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 apartment | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 apartment | det |
| 19 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 conduct | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sultan | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sultan | det |
| 22 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 apartment | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 time | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 time | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 time | cop |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 time | det |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sultan | conj |
| 29 | conversing | converse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 time | acl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 councillors | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 councillors | nmod:poss |
| 32 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 conversing | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a number of officers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | attend | to-infinitive | a number of officers not said here | the prince | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prince=Goal | ||||
| 3 | dismount | past | prince | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | conduct | infinitive | a number of officers not said here | prince | the apartment of the sultan and that time | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to apartment=Destination | |||
| 5 | is | past | the sultan and that time | at that time | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | converse speech: other | gerund | that time not said here | with prince's councillors | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with councillor=Co-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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