The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 42
The slave returned to the gate and told the prince he was welcome.
Who acts: slave, prince · What happens: return, tell, be · To what, where: slave, prince · 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 (slave, prince), 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 slave | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 slave | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 gate | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 returned | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 welcome | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 welcome | cop |
| 13 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 told | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | the slave not said here | to the gate result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to gate=Result | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the slave | the prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | prince | welcome property | 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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