The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 13
Then he destroyed all the councillors who were the enemies of Prince Ahmed, and only spared the grand vizier at Prince Ahmed’s earnest entreaty.
Who acts: Schaibar, councillors · What happens: destroy, be, spare · To what, where: councillors, enemies, grand vizier, earnest entreaty
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, councillors), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 destroyed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 destroyed | nsubj |
| 3 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 councillors | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 councillors | det |
| 6 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 destroyed | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 enemies | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 enemies | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 enemies | det |
| 10 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 councillors | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ahmed | case |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ahmed | compound |
| 13 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 enemies | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spared | cc |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 spared | advmod |
| 17 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 destroyed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vizier | det |
| 19 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 vizier | amod |
| 20 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spared | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 entreaty | case |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Ahmed | compound |
| 23 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 entreaty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Ahmed | case |
| 25 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 entreaty | amod |
| 26 | entreaty | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spared | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | past | Schaibar | all councillors | then | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent councillor=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | all councillors | the enemies | of Prince Ahmed | tree rules | |||
| 3 | spare | past | Schaibar not said here | the grand vizier | Prince Ahmed's earnest entreaty | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent vizier=Asset |
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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