The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 7
Schaibar haughtily approached the throne, and without waiting for Prince Ahmed to present him, thus addressed the sultan: “Thou hast sent for me.
Who acts: Schaibar · What happens: approach, wait, present, address, send · To what, where: throne, Schaibar, sultan, Thou
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), 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 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 2 | haughtily | haughtily | ADV | _ | 3 approached | advmod |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 throne | det |
| 5 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 waiting | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 waiting | cc |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 waiting | mark |
| 9 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 approached | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Prince | case |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 waiting | obl |
| 12 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Prince | flat |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 present | mark |
| 14 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 waiting | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 present | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 addressed | punct |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 18 addressed | advmod |
| 18 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 approached | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sultan | det |
| 20 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 addressed | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 sent | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 sent | punct |
| 23 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sent | aux |
| 25 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 addressed | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 sent | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | Schaibar | the throne | haughtily property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | Schaibar not said here | for Prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | present | to-infinitive | Schaibar not said here | Schaibar | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | address | past | the sultan | thus property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Destination | ||||
| 5 | send in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Thou | for Schaibar | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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