The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 21
The King entered the house of the famous fakir, whom he found in the midst of his pupils, and who at once rose and made a respectful bow to one who was more powerful than himself.
Who acts: King · What happens: enter, find, rise, make, be · To what, where: house, famous fakir, midst, respectful bow, one
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fakir | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fakir | det |
| 8 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fakir | amod |
| 9 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 whom | punct |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 found | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fakir | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 midst | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 midst | det |
| 16 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 pupils | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pupils | nmod:poss |
| 19 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 midst | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rose | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rose | cc |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 rose | nsubj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 rose | obl |
| 25 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 made | cc |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rose | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bow | det |
| 29 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bow | amod |
| 30 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 one | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 made | obl |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 powerful | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 powerful | cop |
| 35 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 powerful | advmod |
| 36 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 one | acl:relcl |
| 37 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 himself | case |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 powerful | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the King | the house of the famous fakir | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | past | king | the famous fakir | the midst of FAKIR's pupils | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Topic | |||
| 3 | rise | past | who nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location | |||||
| 4 | make | past | a respectful bow | one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bow=Product | ||||
| 5 | is | past | than FAKIR; who nsubj; powerful 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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