The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 9
The sultan, instead of answering, put his hands before his eyes to exclude so frightful a sight.
What happens: answer, put, exclude · To what, where: hands, eyes, frightful sight, sultan
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sultan | det |
| 2 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answering | punct |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 6 answering | mark |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 instead | fixed |
| 6 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sultan | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answering | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 exclude | mark |
| 15 | exclude | exclude | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 put | advcl |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 frightful | advmod |
| 17 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sight | amod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sight | det |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 exclude | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sultan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | sultan's hands | sultan's eyes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme before eye=Destination | ||||
| 3 | exclude | to-infinitive | a frightful sight | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sight=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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