The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 134
Sultan Zeyn vowed that he would for the future follow his mother’s advice and be directed by the wise viziers she had chosen to assist him in the government.
Who acts: Sultan, wise viziers, mother · What happens: vow, follow, direct, choose, assist · To what, where: advice, wise viziers, SULTAN, government
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, wise viziers, mother), 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 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 vowed | nsubj |
| 2 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sultan | flat |
| 3 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 follow | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 follow | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 follow | aux |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 future | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 future | det |
| 9 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 follow | obl |
| 10 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 vowed | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 advice | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 14 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 follow | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 directed | cc |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 directed | aux:pass |
| 17 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 follow | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 viziers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 viziers | det |
| 20 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 viziers | amod |
| 21 | viziers | vizier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 directed | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 chosen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 chosen | aux |
| 24 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 viziers | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 assist | mark |
| 26 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 chosen | xcomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 assist | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 government | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 government | det |
| 30 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 assist | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 vowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past | Sultan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | would | SULTAN | SULTAN's mother's advice | for the future | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent advice=Theme for future=Attribute | |||
| 3 | direct | infinitive · passive | the wise viziers | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | choose | past · perfect | mother | the wise viziers not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | assist | to-infinitive | mother not said here | SULTAN | the government | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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