The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 58
The Grand Vizier crossed his arms on his breast and bent low before his master as he answered:
Who acts: Grand Vizier, Vizier · What happens: cross, bend, answer · To what, where: arms, breast, master
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 (Grand Vizier, Vizier), 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 | 3 Vizier | det |
| 2 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Vizier | amod |
| 3 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | nsubj |
| 4 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crossed | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 breast | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breast | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bent | cc |
| 11 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 crossed | conj |
| 12 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 bent | advmod |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 master | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bent | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 answered | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bent | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | the Grand Vizier | Vizier's arms | Vizier's breast | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | |||
| 2 | bend | participle | the Grand Vizier not said here | Vizier's master | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before master=Location | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Vizier | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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