The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 133
The Sultan of the Genii then delivered to him a looking-glass, saying: “My son, you may return when you please.
Who acts: Sultan, son · What happens: deliver, look, say, return · To what, where: looking glass, Genii, you · 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 (Sultan, son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 delivered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Genii | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Genii | det |
| 5 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sultan | nmod |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 delivered | advmod |
| 7 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 delivered | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 glass | det |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 glass | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 13 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delivered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saying | punct |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 delivered | advcl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 return | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 return | punct |
| 18 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 return | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 son | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 return | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 return | aux |
| 23 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 saying | ccomp |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 return | advmod |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 return | obj |
| 26 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 23 return | discourse |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | past | the Sultan of the Genii | a looking glass | Genii | then | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent glass=Theme to he=Destination | ||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Sultan of the Genii not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | return in a quote | may | My son | you | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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