The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 135
But the very night after he returned to his palace he saw the old man the third time in a dream, who said to him: “The time of your prosperity is come, brave Zeyn.
Who acts: night, SULTAN, dream · What happens: return, see, say, come · To what, where: old man, SULTAN, time · 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 (night, SULTAN, dream), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 returned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 night | advmod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 he | case |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 night | nmod |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 palace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 palace | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 dream | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dream | det |
| 21 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dream | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 come | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 come | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 come | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 prosperity | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 prosperity | nmod:poss |
| 33 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | nmod |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 come | aux:pass |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 said | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Zeyn | punct |
| 37 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Zeyn | amod |
| 38 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 come | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the night after SULTAN | to SULTAN's palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | SULTAN | the old man the third time in a dream | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a dream | SULTAN | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · passive | the time of your prosperity | brave Zeyn obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location 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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