The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 6
Thus the prince and he advanced without any obstacle to the council-hall, where the sultan was seated on his throne surrounded by his councillors.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: advance, seat, surround · To what, where: council hall, sultan, throne
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), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 advanced | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thus | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 advanced | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 advanced | nsubj |
| 6 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 obstacle | case |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 obstacle | det |
| 9 | obstacle | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 advanced | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 hall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hall | det |
| 12 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hall | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 council | punct |
| 14 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 advanced | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seated | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 seated | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sultan | det |
| 18 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seated | aux:pass |
| 20 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 hall | acl:relcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 throne | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 throne | nmod:poss |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seated | obl |
| 24 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 throne | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 councillors | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 councillors | nmod:poss |
| 27 | councillors | councillor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | Prince | the council hall | without any obstacle; thus property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hall=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | the sultan | Prince's throne | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | Prince's throne not said here | Prince's councillors obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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