The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 56
It was not long after this, however, before Balatama had made known his errand to the Sultan, and that monarch, turning to his courtiers, said:
Who acts: distance, Balatama, monarch · What happens: not be, make, know, turn, say · To what, where: monarch, errand, courtiers · 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 (distance, Balatama, monarch), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 said | parataxis |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 long | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 however | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 long | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 11 | Balatama | Balatama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 long | parataxis |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 made | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 errand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 known | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Sultan | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sultan | det |
| 19 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 errand | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 monarch | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 monarch | cc |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 monarch | det |
| 23 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turning | punct |
| 25 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 made | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 courtiers | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 28 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 turning | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | distance | after this | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | Balatama | that monarch | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | that monarch not said here | Balatama's errand | to the Sultan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer errand=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | turn | gerund | Balatama's courtiers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to courtier=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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