The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 64
When they had dined, Mobarec, directing his discourse to the company, said: “Know, my friends, that this young stranger is the son of the Sultan of Bussorah, my late master.
Who acts: merchants, young stranger, Mobarec · What happens: dine, direct, say, know, be, discourse · To what, where: Mobarec, discourse, son · 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 (merchants, young stranger, Mobarec), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dined | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dined | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dined | aux |
| 4 | dined | dine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mobarec | punct |
| 6 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dined | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 directing | punct |
| 8 | directing | direct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 dined | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 discourse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 directing | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 company | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 company | det |
| 13 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 directing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Know | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Know | punct |
| 18 | Know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 friends | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friends | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Know | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 son | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 son | mark |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 stranger | det |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stranger | amod |
| 26 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 son | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 son | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 son | det |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Know | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Sultan | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Sultan | det |
| 32 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 son | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Bussorah | case |
| 34 | Bussorah | Bussorah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Sultan | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 master | punct |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 master | nmod:poss |
| 37 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 master | amod |
| 38 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Know | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dine | past · perfect | merchants = merchant | Mobarec | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | direct | gerund | merchants = merchant not said here | Mobarec's discourse | to the company | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent discourse=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | know in a quote | infinitive | my friends conj; my late master conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | this young stranger | the son | of the Sultan of Bussorah | tree rules | |||
| 6 | discourse | Mobarec | nom discourse «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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