The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 33
One morning a soldier presented himself at King Sudraka’s palace gate, and asked the porter to secure an audience for him.
Who acts: soldier, porter · What happens: present, ask, secure · To what, where: soldier, palace gate, porter, audience
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 (soldier, porter), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | nsubj |
| 5 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 presented | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 gate | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Sudraka | Sudraka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | flat |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gate | compound |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 presented | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 presented | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 porter | det |
| 17 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 secure | mark |
| 19 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | xcomp |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 audience | det |
| 21 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 secure | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 secure | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | a soldier | soldier | King's palace gate | morning | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a soldier not said here | the porter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent porter=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | secure not said to happen | to-infinitive | the porter not said here | a audience | for soldier | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition audience=Theme for he=Beneficiary |
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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