The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 40
Now the Sultan of the Island had a beautiful daughter whom Bantugan wished to marry, but the home of the Sultan was far off, and whoever went to carry Bantugan’s proposal would have a long and hazardous journey.
Who acts: Sultan, Bantugan, home, whoever, proposal · What happens: have, wish, marry, be, go, carry · To what, where: beautiful daughter, long journey
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, Bantugan, home, whoever), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sultan | det |
| 3 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Island | det |
| 6 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Sultan | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 daughter | amod |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 wished | obj |
| 12 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wished | nsubj |
| 13 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 marry | mark |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wished | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 off | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 off | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 home | det |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 off | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Sultan | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sultan | det |
| 22 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 home | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 off | cop |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 off | advmod |
| 25 | off | off | ADV | _ | 7 had | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 28 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 went | nsubj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 carry | mark |
| 31 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 went | xcomp |
| 32 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 Bantugan | case |
| 34 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 carry | ccomp |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 journey | det |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 journey | amod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 hazardous | cc |
| 40 | hazardous | hazardous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 long | conj |
| 41 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Sultan of the Island | a beautiful daughter | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | |||
| 2 | wish | past | Bantugan | a beautiful daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Bantugan not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the home of the Sultan | far, off property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | whoever | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | carry | to-infinitive | whoever not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | have | would | Bantugan's proposal | a long journey | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Patient | ||||
| 8 | propose | Bantugan | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: 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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