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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 1

“The sultan his father,” replied Perie Banou, “has a curiosity to see you, and I desire he may be your guide to the sultan’s court.”

Who acts: sultan, Perie · What happens: reply, have, see, desire, be · To what, where: Perie, curiosity, you, guide · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, Perie), 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

punctdetnsubjnmod:possobjpunctpunctobjflatpunctpunctacl:relcldetobjmarkaclobjpunctccnsubjconjnsubjauxcopnmod:possccompcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctpunctroot“PUNCTTheDETsultanNOUNhisPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTrepliedVERBPeriePROPNBanouPROPN,PUNCT“PUNCThasVERBaDETcuriosityNOUNtoPARTseeVERByouPRON,PUNCTandCCONJIPRONdesireVERBhePRONmayAUXbeAUXyourPRONguideNOUNtoADPtheDETsultanNOUN’sPARTcourtNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_8 repliedpunct
2ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 sultandet
3sultansultanNOUNNumber=Sing8 repliednsubj
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 fathernmod:poss
5fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing3 sultanobj
6,,PUNCT_3 sultanpunct
7”"PUNCT_3 sultanpunct
8repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9PeriePeriePROPNNumber=Sing8 repliedobj
10BanouBanouPROPNNumber=Sing9 Perieflat
11,,PUNCT_13 haspunct
12“"PUNCT_13 haspunct
13hashaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 Perieacl:relcl
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 curiositydet
15curiositycuriosityNOUNNumber=Sing13 hasobj
16totoPART_17 seemark
17seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf15 curiosityacl
18youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs17 seeobj
19,,PUNCT_22 desirepunct
20andandCCONJ_22 desirecc
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 desirensubj
22desiredesireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 repliedconj
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 guidensubj
24maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin27 guideaux
25bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf27 guidecop
26youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 guidenmod:poss
27guideguideNOUNNumber=Sing22 desireccomp
28totoADP_32 courtcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 sultandet
30sultansultanNOUNNumber=Sing32 courtnmod:poss
31’s'sPART_30 sultancase
32courtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing22 desireobl
33..PUNCT_8 repliedpunct
34”"PUNCT_8 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastthe sultan sultan's fatherPerievn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent perie=Topic
2have in a quotepresentPerie not said herea curiosityvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient
3see in a quoteto-infinitivePerie not said hereyouvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4desire in a quotepresentthe sultan sultan's father = sultanto the sultan's courtvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5is a in a quotemaysultanyour guideyour nmod:posstree rules

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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