The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 34
The young sultan having read these words said to the queen, “I will set out for Grand Cairo; nor do I believe, madam, that you will now oppose my design.”
Who acts: young sultan, queen, my · What happens: have, read, say, set out, believe, oppose · To what, where: words, queen, design · 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 (young sultan, queen, my), 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 | 3 sultan | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sultan | amod |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sultan | acl |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 having | xcomp |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 read | obj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 queen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 queen | det |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | aux |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Cairo | case |
| 19 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Cairo | amod |
| 20 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 believe | punct |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 believe | cc |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 believe | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 believe | nsubj |
| 25 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 madam | punct |
| 27 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 believe | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 oppose | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 oppose | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 oppose | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 oppose | aux |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 oppose | advmod |
| 33 | oppose | oppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 believe | conj |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 design | nmod:poss |
| 35 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 oppose | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 believe | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the young sultan not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | read | participle | the young sultan not said here | this words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the young sultan | the queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | set out in a quote | future | the young sultan = sultan | for Grand Cairo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | believe in a quote | present · do-support | the young sultan = sultan | madam conj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | oppose in a quote | future | the queen = queen | my design | now | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Patient | |||
| 7 | design in a quote | my | nom design «act 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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