The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 57
The Caliph withdrew his pipe for a moment from his lips and asked, “Why do you look so anxious, Grand Vizier?”
Who acts: Caliph, you · What happens: withdraw, ask, look · To what, where: pipe, lips, Grand Vizier · 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 (Caliph, you), 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 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 withdrew | nsubj |
| 3 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 withdrew | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 withdrew | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 lips | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lips | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 withdrew | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 withdrew | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 look | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 look | punct |
| 16 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 look | advmod |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 look | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 look | nsubj |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 anxious | advmod |
| 21 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 look | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Vizier | punct |
| 23 | Grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Vizier | amod |
| 24 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 look | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 look | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past | the Caliph | Vizier's pipe | Vizier's lips | moment | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme from lip=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Caliph not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | present · do-support | you | Grand Vizier | anxious property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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