The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 45
Zeyn thanked the King of the Genii, and returned to Cairo with Mobarec, but did not stay long in Egypt, for his impatience to see the ninth statue made him hasten his departure.
Who acts: Zeyn, impatience, King · What happens: thank, return, not stay, see, make, hasten · To what, where: King, Cairo, Egypt, ninth statue, departure
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 (Zeyn, impatience, King), 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 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Genii | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Genii | det |
| 7 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 returned | cc |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Cairo | case |
| 12 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Mobarec | case |
| 14 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stay | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 stay | cc |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stay | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 stay | advmod |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thanked | conj |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 stay | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Egypt | case |
| 22 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 stay | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 impatience | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 impatience | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 impatience | nmod:poss |
| 26 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | nsubj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 impatience | acl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 statue | det |
| 30 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 statue | amod |
| 31 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 see | obj |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 made | obj |
| 34 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 made | xcomp |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 departure | nmod:poss |
| 36 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hasten | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Zeyn | the King of the Genii | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | Zeyn not said here | Cairo | with Mobarec | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cairo=Result | |||
| 3 | not stay | past · do-support | Zeyn not said here | Egypt | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in egypt=Location | |||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Egypt's impatience not said here | the ninth statue | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer statue=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | make | past | Egypt's impatience | King | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hasten | infinitive | King not said here | impatience's departure | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent departure=Patient | ||||
| 7 | depart | impatience | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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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