The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 44
The prince, having answered his compliment, said to Mobarec, “I am the son of the late Sultan of Bussorah, and my name is Zeyn Alasnam.”
Who acts: prince, name, my · What happens: have, answer, say, be, compliment, name · To what, where: compliment, Mobarec, son, Zeyn · 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 (prince, name, 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 prince | conj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 compliment | nmod:poss |
| 7 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Mobarec | case |
| 11 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 son | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 son | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 son | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 son | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 son | det |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Mobarec | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Sultan | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sultan | det |
| 20 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Sultan | amod |
| 21 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Bussorah | case |
| 23 | Bussorah | Bussorah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sultan | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Zeyn | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Zeyn | cc |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 name | nmod:poss |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Zeyn | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Zeyn | cop |
| 29 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mobarec | appos |
| 30 | Alasnam | Alasnam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Zeyn | flat |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 Zeyn | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Zeyn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the prince not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the prince | prince's compliment | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent compliment=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | Mobarec | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mobarec=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the prince = prince | the son | of the late Sultan of Bussorah | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | my name | Zeyn | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | compliment | prince | nom compliment «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | name in a quote | my | nom name «communication 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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