The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 39
Zeyn was conducted thither, knocked at the gate, which a slave opened and demanded, “What is it you want, and who are you?”
Who acts: gate, house, you · What happens: conduct, knock, slave, open, demand, be · To what, where: Zeyn, slave · 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 (gate, house, you), 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 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 conducted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 conducted | aux:pass |
| 3 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 3 conducted | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 knocked | punct |
| 6 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 conducted | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knocked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slave | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 slave | nsubj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 slave | det |
| 13 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gate | conj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 slave | acl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 demanded | cc |
| 16 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 opened | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 want | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 want | punct |
| 19 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 want | obj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 want | cop |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 want | nsubj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 want | nsubj |
| 23 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 conducted | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 who | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 who | cc |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 conducted | parataxis |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 who | cop |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 who | nsubj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 conducted | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past · passive | Zeyn | thither property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | knock | participle | at the gate and a slave | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at gate=Patient | |||||
| 3 | slave | the gate and a slave | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | open | participle | a slave not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | demand speech: request | participle | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | house | What obj; you nsubj; want property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | you | 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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