The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 116
Mobarec, having thus instructed Prince Zeyn, began his conjuration.
Who acts: Mobarec · What happens: have, instruct, begin, conjure · To what, where: Prince, conjuration
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), 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 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 having | punct |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Mobarec | acl |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 instructed | advmod |
| 5 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 having | advcl |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 instructed | obj |
| 7 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mobarec | punct |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 conjuration | nmod:poss |
| 11 | conjuration | conjuration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Mobarec not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | participle | Mobarec not said here | Prince | thus property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | |||
| 3 | begin | past | Mobarec | Mobarec's conjuration | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conjuration=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | conjure | Mobarec | nom conjuration «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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