The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 32
When they arrived, the maid, who had performed the journey in a litter, and whom the prince had never seen since his marriage, said to Mobarec: “Where are we?
Who acts: rank, maid, we, prince · What happens: arrive, perform, not see, say, be, marry · To what, where: maid, journey, litter, prince, Mobarec · 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 (rank, maid, we, prince), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 said | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 maid | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 performed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 performed | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 performed | aux |
| 10 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 maid | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 journey | det |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 performed | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 litter | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 litter | det |
| 15 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 performed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 whom | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 whom | cc |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 arrived | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 seen | advmod |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 whom | acl:relcl |
| 24 | since | since | ADP | _ | 26 marriage | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Mobarec | case |
| 30 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 said | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 Where | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 Where | punct |
| 33 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 said | conj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 Where | cop |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 Where | nsubj |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | rank | the maid | whom obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | perform | past · perfect | the maid | the journey | a litter | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||
| 3 | not see | past · perfect · passive | the prince | since prince's marriage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | Mobarec | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mobarec=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | we | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | marry | prince | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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