The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 112
Afterwards he sat down on one of the mats, and Zeyn on the other, and Mobarec said to the prince: “I shall now conjure the Sultan of the Genii, who lives in the palace that is before us.
Who acts: Mobarec, that · What happens: sit down, say, conjure, live, be · To what, where: Zeyn, other, prince, Sultan, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mobarec, that), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sat | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mats | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mats | det |
| 9 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Zeyn | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Zeyn | cc |
| 12 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 other | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 other | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 18 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 prince | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 conjure | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 conjure | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 conjure | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 conjure | aux |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 conjure | advmod |
| 28 | conjure | conjure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Sultan | det |
| 30 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 conjure | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Genii | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Genii | det |
| 33 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Sultan | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lives | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 lives | nsubj |
| 36 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 conjure | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 palace | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 palace | det |
| 39 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lives | obl |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 us | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 us | cop |
| 42 | before | before | ADP | _ | 43 us | case |
| 43 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 palace | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Mobarec | Zeyn | the other | on one of the mats; afterwards property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on one=Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mobarec | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | conjure in a quote | shall | Mobarec | the Sultan of the Genii | now | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Result | |||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | the palace | who nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | that | before us | 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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