The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 12
He did this before Prince Ahmed had the power to interfere.
Who acts: Schaibar, Prince Ahmed · What happens: do, have, interfere · To what, where: this, power
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 (Schaibar, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ahmed | compound |
| 6 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 power | det |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 interfere | mark |
| 11 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 power | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Schaibar | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Prince Ahmed | the power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | interfere | to-infinitive | Prince Ahmed not said here | the power not said here | tree 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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