The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 36
He did not intend to make you Sovereign of Bussorah, but to deliver you to the Sultan of the Genii.”
Who acts: prince · What happens: not intend, make, deliver · To what, where: you, Sultan
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 intend | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 intend | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 intend | advmod |
| 4 | intend | intend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 intend | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | Sovereign | Sovereign | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Bussorah | case |
| 10 | Bussorah | Bussorah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sovereign | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deliver | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 deliver | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 deliver | mark |
| 14 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 intend | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 deliver | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Sultan | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sultan | det |
| 18 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 deliver | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Genii | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Genii | det |
| 21 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Sultan | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 intend | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 intend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not intend | past · do-support | prince | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | prince not said here | you | Sovereign of Bussorah obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||
| 3 | deliver | to-infinitive | prince not said here | you | the Sultan of the Genii | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to sultan=Destination |
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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