The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 100
Thereupon the Egyptian summoned all the household before him, save only the girl in question, but the man from Bagdad said: “I care little for any of these; she whom I love is not among them.”
Who acts: Egyptian, man · What happens: summon, save, say, care, love, not be · To what, where: household, girl, question, little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Egyptian, man), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Egyptian | det |
| 3 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 summoned | nsubj |
| 4 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 household | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 household | det |
| 7 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 summoned | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 summoned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 save | punct |
| 11 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 summoned | advcl |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 girl | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 save | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 question | case |
| 16 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 save | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Bagdad | case |
| 22 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 man | nmod |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 summoned | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 care | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 care | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 care | nsubj |
| 27 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | ccomp |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 care | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 any | case |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 little | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 these | case |
| 32 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 any | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 whom | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 whom | nsubj |
| 35 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 summoned | parataxis |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 love | nsubj |
| 37 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 whom | acl:relcl |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 them | cop |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 them | advmod |
| 40 | among | among | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 whom | nsubj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 whom | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 whom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | the Egyptian | all household | before friend | whom girl parataxis; thereupon property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent household=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | save | infinitive | the Egyptian not said here | the girl | question | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the man from Bagdad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | care in a quote | present | the man from Bagdad = man | little | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | love in a quote | present | the man from Bagdad = man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | not is in a quote | present | among MERCHANTS = merchant | 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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