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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 41

The slave desired Zeyn to wait while he went to acquaint his master, who ordered him to request the stranger to walk in.

Who acts: slave, prince, master · What happens: desire, wait, go, acquaint, order, request · To what, where: Zeyn, master, prince, stranger, slave

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 (slave, prince, master), 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

detaclobjmarkadvclmarknsubjadvclmarkxcompnmod:possobjpunctnsubjacl:relclobjmarkxcompdetobjmarkadvcladvmodpunctrootTheDETslaveNOUNdesiredVERBZeynPROPNtoPARTwaitVERBwhileSCONJhePRONwentVERBtoPARTacquaintVERBhisPRONmasterNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONorderedVERBhimPRONtoPARTrequestVERBtheDETstrangerNOUNtoPARTwalkVERBinADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 slavedet
2slaveslaveNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
3desireddesireVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 slaveacl
4ZeynZeynPROPNNumber=Sing3 desiredobj
5totoPART_6 waitmark
6waitwaitVERBVerbForm=Inf3 desiredadvcl
7whilewhileSCONJ_9 wentmark
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 wentnsubj
9wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 waitadvcl
10totoPART_11 acquaintmark
11acquaintacquaintVERBVerbForm=Inf9 wentxcomp
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 masternmod:poss
13mastermasterNOUNNumber=Sing11 acquaintobj
14,,PUNCT_16 orderedpunct
15whowhoPRONPronType=Rel16 orderednsubj
16orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 masteracl:relcl
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 orderedobj
18totoPART_19 requestmark
19requestrequestVERBVerbForm=Inf16 orderedxcomp
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 strangerdet
21strangerstrangerNOUNNumber=Sing19 requestobj
22totoPART_23 walkmark
23walkwalkVERBVerbForm=Inf19 requestadvcl
24ininADV_23 walkadvmod
25..PUNCT_2 slavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1desireparticiplethe slave not said hereZeynvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot zeyn=Theme
2waitto-infinitivethe slave not said herevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3gopastprincevn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4acquaint speech: otherto-infinitiveprince not said hereprince's mastervn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient
5orderpastprince's masterprincevn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6request not said to happento-infinitiveprince's master not said herethe strangervn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient
7walk into-infinitiveprince's master not said herevn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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