The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 92
While, however, the prince was yet young, the good sultan fell sick of a disorder, which all the skill of his physicians could not cure, and presently he died.
Who acts: prince, good sultan, disorder · What happens: be, fall, skill, not cure, die
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 (prince, good sultan, disorder), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 however | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 While | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 9 young | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 young | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 young | cop |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 young | advmod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sultan | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sultan | amod |
| 13 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 young | parataxis |
| 15 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fell | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 disorder | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 disorder | det |
| 18 | disorder | disorder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sick | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 skill | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 skill | nsubj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 skill | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 skill | det |
| 23 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disorder | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 physicians | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 physicians | nmod:poss |
| 26 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 cure | obl |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 cure | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 cure | advmod |
| 29 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 skill | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 died | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 died | cc |
| 32 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 34 died | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 died | nsubj |
| 34 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fell | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | yet | young property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the good sultan | sick property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | skill | a disorder and all skill | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not cure | could | a disorder and all skill not said here | of SULTAN's physicians | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer of physician=Theme | ||||
| 5 | die | past | PRINCE | presently property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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