The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 14
The prince accompanied the imaum to the vizier’s; and the vizier, as soon as he was acquainted with the prince’s birth and design, called his daughter and made her take off her veil.
Who acts: prince, vizier, daughter · What happens: accompany, acquaint, call, make, take off · To what, where: imaum, vizier, prince, daughter, veil · 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 (prince, vizier, daughter), 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 | 3 accompanied | nsubj |
| 3 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 imaum | det |
| 5 | imaum | imaum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 vizier | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vizier | det |
| 8 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | obl |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 vizier | case |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 vizier | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 vizier | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vizier | det |
| 13 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 acquainted | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 acquainted | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 acquainted | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 acquainted | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 acquainted | aux:pass |
| 20 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 vizier | acl:relcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 birth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 birth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 prince | case |
| 25 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 acquainted | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 design | cc |
| 27 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 birth | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 called | punct |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 vizier | acl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 called | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 made | cc |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accompanied | conj |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 made | obj |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 made | xcomp |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 take | compound:prt |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 veil | nmod:poss |
| 38 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past | the prince | the imaum | the vizier | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent imaum=Theme to vizier=Destination | |||
| 2 | acquaint speech: other | past · passive | prince | with the prince's birth and design; soon property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | the vizier not said here | prince's daughter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the prince not said here | daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take off | infinitive | daughter not said here | daughter's veil | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=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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