The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 100
Bow three times toward the east and say ‘Mutabor!’ and I shall be Caliph and you my Grand Vizier again.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bow, say, be · To what, where: Mutabor, Caliph · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | Bow | bow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 times | nummod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Bow | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 6 east | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 east | det |
| 6 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bow | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 say | cc |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bow | conj |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mutabor | punct |
| 10 | Mutabor | Mutabor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 say | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mutabor | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mutabor | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Caliph | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 Caliph | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 Caliph | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 Caliph | cop |
| 17 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mutabor | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Vizier | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 Vizier | nsubj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Vizier | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Vizier | amod |
| 22 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mutabor | conj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 say | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | imperative | you not said here | time | toward the east | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | Mutabor and Caliph and my Grand Vizier you | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mutabor=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a | shall | I | Caliph | 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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