The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 52
Caliph Chasid, of Bagdad, was resting comfortably on his divan one fine afternoon.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: rest · To what, where: divan
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 (Caliph), 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 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 resting | nsubj |
| 2 | Chasid | Chasid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Caliph | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bagdad | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Bagdad | case |
| 5 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Caliph | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Caliph | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 resting | aux |
| 8 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 8 resting | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 divan | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 divan | nmod:poss |
| 12 | divan | divan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resting | obl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 afternoon | nummod |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 afternoon | amod |
| 15 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resting | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 resting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past · progressive | Caliph and Bagdad | Bagdad's divan | afternoon | comfortably property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on divan=Location |
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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