The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 23
Prince Ahmed gave to Prince Ali and the Princess Nouronnihar a very considerable province, with its capital, for their establishment.
Who acts: Prince Ahmed, Ali · What happens: give, establish · To what, where: considerable province, Ali
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 (Prince Ahmed, Ali), 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 | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Ali | case |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Nouronnihar | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Nouronnihar | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 10 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ali | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 province | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 considerable | advmod |
| 13 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 province | amod |
| 14 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 capital | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 capital | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 capital | nmod:poss |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 establishment | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 establishment | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 establishment | nmod:poss |
| 22 | establishment | establishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Prince Ahmed | a considerable province | Ali Prince and the Princess Nouronnihar | with province's capital; for Ali's establishment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent province=Theme to ali=Recipient for establishment=Asset | ||
| 2 | establish | Ali | nom establishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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