The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 92
Some moments after the fairy said to Prince Ahmed, “Prince, there comes my brother, do you see him?”
Who acts: moments, Prince Ahmed · What happens: say, come, see · To what, where: Prince Ahmed, brother, Ahmed · 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 (moments, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 moments | det |
| 2 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 fairy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fairy | det |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moments | nmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Ahmed | case |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ahmed | compound |
| 9 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Prince | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Prince | punct |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ahmed | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 comes | expl |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Ahmed | acl:relcl |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | some moments after the fairy | Prince Ahmed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ahmed=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | Prince Ahmed not said here | my brother | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brother=Theme | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · do-support | Prince Ahmed = ahmed | Ahmed | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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