The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 97
At these words, Schaibar, gazing at Prince Ahmed with a favorable eye, which, however, diminished neither his fierceness nor savage look, said, “It is enough for me that he is your husband, to engage me to do for him whatever he wishes.”
Who acts: words, favorable eye, fierceness, Ahmed · What happens: gaze, diminish, say, be, engage, do · To what, where: fierceness, words, husband, me, whatever · 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 (words, favorable eye, fierceness, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Schaibar | punct |
| 5 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 words | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gazing | punct |
| 7 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 words | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Ahmed | case |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ahmed | compound |
| 10 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gazing | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 eye | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 eye | det |
| 13 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eye | amod |
| 14 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gazing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 diminished | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 diminished | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 which | punct |
| 18 | however | however | ADV | _ | 20 diminished | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 however | punct |
| 20 | diminished | diminish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 eye | conj |
| 21 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 fierceness | cc:preconj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fierceness | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fierceness | fierceness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 diminished | obj |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 look | cc |
| 25 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 look | amod |
| 26 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fierceness | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 enough | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 enough | punct |
| 31 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 enough | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 enough | cop |
| 33 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 said | ccomp |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 me | case |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 enough | obl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 husband | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 husband | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 husband | cop |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 husband | nmod:poss |
| 40 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 enough | advcl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 engage | punct |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 engage | mark |
| 43 | engage | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | ccomp |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 engage | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 do | mark |
| 46 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 engage | xcomp |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 do | obl |
| 49 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 wishes | obj |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 wishes | nsubj |
| 51 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 do | advcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 engage | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 engage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | gerund | this words not said here | with a favorable eye; at Prince Ahmed | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ahmed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | diminish | past | a favorable eye | Ahmed's fierceness nor savage look | however property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer fierceness=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | this words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | fierceness | for me; enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Ahmed | your husband | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 6 | engage in a quote | to-infinitive | me | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | for husband | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | wish in a quote | present | Ahmed | whatever | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme |
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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