The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 31
They returned to Cairo and thence set out for the island of the Sultan of the Genii.
Who acts: rank · What happens: return, set out · To what, where: Cairo
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 (rank), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Cairo | case |
| 4 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 set | cc |
| 6 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 returned | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 island | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 island | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Sultan | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sultan | det |
| 14 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 island | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Genii | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Genii | det |
| 17 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sultan | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | rank | Cairo | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cairo=Result | ||||
| 2 | set out | participle | rank not said here | for the island of the Sultan of the Genii; thence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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