The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 22
When all the company was dismissed Mobarec said to his master: “Let us begone, sir, let us not stay any longer at Bagdad, but return to Cairo.
Who acts: Mobarec, us · What happens: dismiss, say, let, begone, sir, not stay · To what, where: company, master, us, Cairo · 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 (Mobarec, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 dismissed | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 company | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 company | det |
| 4 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dismissed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dismissed | aux:pass |
| 6 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | advcl |
| 7 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 master | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Let | punct |
| 14 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Let | obj |
| 16 | begone | begone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Let | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sir | punct |
| 18 | sir | sir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Let | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Let | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 stay | advmod |
| 23 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 24 | any | any | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 stay | advmod |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Bagdad | case |
| 27 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 longer | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 return | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 return | cc |
| 30 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 Let | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Cairo | case |
| 32 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 return | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismiss | past · passive | all company | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mobarec | Mobarec's master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | begone in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sir in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not stay in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | return in a quote | infinitive | Cairo | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cairo=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/18/22/