The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 98
Now at this very time the Spanish general and his brother were with the Sultan, intending to call upon the Princess.
Who acts: Spanish general, Sultan · What happens: be, intend, call · 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 (Spanish general, Sultan), 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 | 17 intending | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 time | advmod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 intending | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 general | det |
| 7 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 general | amod |
| 8 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Sultan | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brother | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 general | conj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Sultan | cop |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Sultan | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sultan | det |
| 15 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 intending | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 intending | punct |
| 17 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 call | mark |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 intending | xcomp |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 Princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 22 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 call | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 intending | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Spanish general and general's brother | with the Sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | intend | gerund | the Sultan | now; time | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | call not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | upon the Princess | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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