The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 51

He went directly to give an account of his journey to his mother, who was in a rapture to hear that he had obtained the ninth statue.

Who acts: sultan, mother · What happens: go, give, be, hear, obtain, account · To what, where: account, mother, rapture, ninth statue, journey

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 (sultan, mother), 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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	directly	directly	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	xcomp
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 account	det
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 journey	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 journey	nmod:poss
10	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 account	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 mother	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rapture	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 rapture	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rapture	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 rapture	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 rapture	det
19	rapture	rapture	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mother	nmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 hear	mark
21	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 rapture	csubj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 obtained	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 obtained	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 obtained	aux
25	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 hear	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 statue	det
27	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 statue	amod
28	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 obtained	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	sultan				directly property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	to-infinitive	sultan not said here	a account of sultan's journey	sultan's mother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent account=Theme to mother=Recipient
3	is	past	sultan's mother			a rapture		tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	obtain	past · perfect	sultan	the ninth statue				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Theme
6	account			sultan's journey				nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	journey		sultan					nom journey «act 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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 51

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 51