The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 4
Having spoken thus he left the queen’s apartment, caused a pick-axe to be brought to him, and went alone into the late sultan’s private room.
Who acts: dream · What happens: speak, leave, cause, bring, go · To what, where: apartment, pick axe, dream, private room · 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 (dream), 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 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 spoken | aux |
| 2 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 left | advcl |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 spoken | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 queen | case |
| 9 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caused | punct |
| 11 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 axe | det |
| 13 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 axe | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 pick | punct |
| 15 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caused | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 brought | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 brought | aux:pass |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 axe | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 24 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 room | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sultan | det |
| 27 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sultan | amod |
| 28 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 room | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 sultan | case |
| 30 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 room | amod |
| 31 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund · perfect | dream not said here | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | dream | the queen's apartment | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apartment=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cause | past | dream not said here | a pick axe | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition axe=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | dream not said here | a pick axe not said here | dream | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to he=Destination | |||
| 5 | go | past | dream not said here | the late sultan's private room | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location |
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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