The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 19
Prince Ahmed, my brother-in-law, must be instantly acknowledged as Sultan of India.”
What happens: acknowledge · To what, where: Prince Ahmed
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: 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ahmed | compound |
| 2 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 acknowledged | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ahmed | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 law | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 law | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 in | punct |
| 9 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahmed | punct |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 acknowledged | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 acknowledged | aux:pass |
| 13 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 14 acknowledged | advmod |
| 14 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 Sultan | case |
| 16 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 acknowledged | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 India | case |
| 18 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sultan | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 acknowledged | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 acknowledged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acknowledge | must · passive | Prince Ahmed | as Sultan of India; instantly property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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