The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 41
Her tears and complaints were of no effect, for she was presented to the Sultan of the Genii, who having gazed on her with attention, said to Zeyn: “Prince, I am satisfied with your behavior.
Who acts: tears, Sultan, Prince · What happens: be, present, gaze, say · To what, where: Sovereign, Sultan, Zeyn · 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 (tears, Sultan, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 tears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 effect | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 complaints | cc |
| 4 | complaints | complaint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tears | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 effect | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 effect | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 effect | det |
| 8 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 presented | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 presented | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 presented | aux:pass |
| 13 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 effect | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Sultan | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sultan | det |
| 16 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 presented | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Genii | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Genii | det |
| 19 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sultan | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gazed | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 gazed | nsubj |
| 22 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 gazed | aux |
| 23 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 Sultan | acl:relcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gazed | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 attention | case |
| 27 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gazed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 effect | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Zeyn | case |
| 31 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 said | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 Prince | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Prince | punct |
| 34 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 satisfied | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 satisfied | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 satisfied | nsubj |
| 37 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 satisfied | cop |
| 38 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 effect | parataxis |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 behavior | case |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 behavior | nmod:poss |
| 41 | behavior | behavior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 satisfied | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 effect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sovereign's tears and complaints | of no effect | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | present | past · passive | Sovereign | the Sultan of the Genii | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to sultan=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund · perfect | the Sultan of the Genii | on Sovereign; with attention | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Zeyn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to zeyn=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Prince | with your behavior; I nsubj; satisfied property | tree rules |
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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