The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 114
No sooner was he fallen asleep than he saw the same old man, who said to him: “I am pleased with you, my son.
Who acts: SULTAN, same old man · What happens: fall, see, say, be · To what, where: SULTAN, same old man · Speech: someone speaks here
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, same old man), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 fallen | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | aux:pass |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fallen | nsubj |
| 5 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fallen | xcomp |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 saw | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fallen | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleased | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 pleased | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 pleased | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pleased | cop |
| 23 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 pleased | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 son | punct |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pleased | vocative |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · passive | SULTAN | asleep, soon property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | SULTAN | the same old man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the same old man | SULTAN | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the same old man = man | with SULTAN; my son vocative; pleased property | tree rules |
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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