The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 113
But the Sultan said: “We must wait until the smoke rises to make sure that Bantugan is gone.”
Who acts: Sultan, We, smoke, Bantugan · What happens: say, wait, rise, make, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, We, smoke, Bantugan), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sultan | det |
| 3 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 wait | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wait | punct |
| 7 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wait | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 wait | aux |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 rises | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 smoke | det |
| 12 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rises | nsubj |
| 13 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wait | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rises | xcomp |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 gone | mark |
| 18 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gone | cop |
| 20 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wait | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | must | We | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rise in a quote | present | the smoke | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | the smoke not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Bantugan | gone property | 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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