The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 15
Never had the young Sultan of Bussorah beheld such a perfect and striking beauty.
Who acts: young Sultan · What happens: not have, behold, strike · To what, where: perfect beauty
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), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultan | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Sultan | amod |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 beheld | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Bussorah | case |
| 7 | Bussorah | Bussorah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sultan | nmod |
| 8 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | ccomp |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 beauty | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 beauty | det |
| 11 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beauty | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 striking | cc |
| 13 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 perfect | conj |
| 14 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beheld | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | behold | past | the young Sultan of Bussorah | such perfect beauty | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | strike | gerund | the young Sultan of Bussorah not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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