The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 85
The Sultan and his courtiers were so frightened that they decided to give his daughter to the General, the next full moon being the date set for the wedding.
Who acts: Sultan, courtiers, next full moon · What happens: be, decide, give · To what, where: daughter, date set
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, courtiers, next full moon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 frightened | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 courtiers | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Sultan | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 frightened | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 frightened | advmod |
| 8 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 decided | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 decided | nsubj |
| 11 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 frightened | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decided | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 General | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 General | det |
| 18 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moon | det |
| 21 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 moon | amod |
| 22 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 moon | amod |
| 23 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | nsubj |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 set | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 set | det |
| 26 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | compound |
| 27 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 General | appos |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 wedding | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wedding | det |
| 30 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Sultan and Sultan's courtiers | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | courtiers = courtier | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | courtiers = courtier not said here | Sultan's daughter | to the General | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to general=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a | gerund | the next full moon | the date set | for the wedding | 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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