The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 1
The young sultan rested a few days at Mobarec’s house and then said to him, “Let us go to Bagdad, to seek a maiden for the Sovereign of the Genii.”
Who acts: young sultan, us · What happens: rest, say, let, go, seek · To what, where: house, sultan, us, Bagdad, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young sultan, us), 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 | 3 sultan | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sultan | amod |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rested | nsubj |
| 4 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 days | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rested | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 9 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Mobarec | case |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rested | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 said | advmod |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rested | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Let | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Let | punct |
| 19 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 Let | obj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Let | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Bagdad | case |
| 23 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seek | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 seek | mark |
| 26 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Let | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 maiden | det |
| 28 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seek | obj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 Sovereign | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sovereign | det |
| 31 | Sovereign | Sovereign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 maiden | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Genii | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Genii | det |
| 34 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Sovereign | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 Let | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | the young sultan | Mobarec's house | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young sultan not said here | sultan | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | Bagdad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | a maiden | for the Sovereign of the Genii | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent maiden=Location for sovereign=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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