The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 111
The sultan entreated her to undertake the government of the kingdom, and set out one night very privately from his palace and took the road to Cairo, alone and unattended.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: entreat, undertake, set out, take · To what, where: queen, government, road, Cairo
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan), 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 | 3 entreated | nsubj |
| 3 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entreated | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 undertake | mark |
| 6 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 entreated | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 government | det |
| 8 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 undertake | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kingdom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kingdom | det |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 government | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 undertake | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 night | nummod |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 privately | advmod |
| 19 | privately | privately | ADV | _ | 14 set | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 palace | nmod:poss |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 privately | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entreated | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 road | det |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Cairo | case |
| 28 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 alone | punct |
| 30 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 24 took | advmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 unattended | cc |
| 32 | unattended | unattended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 alone | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | past | the sultan | queen | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | undertake | to-infinitive | the sultan not said here | the government of the kingdom | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | the sultan not said here | night | privately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | past | the sultan not said here | the road | Cairo | alone property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent road=Theme to cairo=Destination |
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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