The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 9
When Zeyn and Mobarec saw there were no maidens to be found in Cairo who did not wish to be married, they went to Bagdad, where they hired a magnificent palace, and soon made acquaintance with the chief people of the city.
Who acts: Zeyn, maidens, Cairo · What happens: see, be, find, not wish, marry, go · To what, where: Cairo, Bagdad, magnificent palace, acquaintance · 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 (Zeyn, maidens, Cairo), 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 | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Mobarec | cc |
| 4 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Zeyn | conj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | advcl |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 were | expl |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 maidens | det |
| 9 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 found | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 maidens | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Cairo | case |
| 14 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wish | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 wish | advmod |
| 18 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 Cairo | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 married | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 married | aux:pass |
| 21 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 wish | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Bagdad | case |
| 26 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hired | punct |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 hired | advmod |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 hired | nsubj |
| 30 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Bagdad | acl:relcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 palace | det |
| 32 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 palace | amod |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hired | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 made | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 made | cc |
| 36 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 made | advmod |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 38 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 people | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 people | det |
| 41 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 people | amod |
| 42 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 made | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 city | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 city | det |
| 45 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 people | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Zeyn and Mobarec | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | no maidens | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive · passive | no maidens not said here | Cairo | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» | ||||
| 4 | not wish | past · do-support | Cairo | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Cairo not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | go | past | Zeyn | Bagdad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | hire | past | Zeyn | a magnificent palace | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 8 | make | past | Zeyn not said here | acquaintance | with the chief people of the city; soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product |
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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