The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 61
The Caliph, who had wished for some time past to give his Grand Vizier a present, ordered his black slave to bring the pedler before him at once.
Who acts: Caliph, black slave · What happens: wish, give, order, bring · To what, where: present, Grand Vizier, black slave, pedler
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, black slave), 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 | 19 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wished | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wished | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wished | aux |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Caliph | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 past | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 past | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 past | compound |
| 10 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wished | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wished | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Vizier | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Vizier | amod |
| 15 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 present | det |
| 17 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Caliph | punct |
| 19 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 slave | nmod:poss |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 slave | amod |
| 22 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ordered | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 bring | mark |
| 24 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ordered | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pedler | det |
| 26 | pedler | pedler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bring | obj |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bring | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 once | case |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 bring | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past · perfect | the Caliph | for some time past | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for past=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | the Caliph not said here | a present | Vizier's Grand Vizier | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent vizier=Recipient present=Theme | |||
| 3 | order | past | the Caliph | Vizier's black slave | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | Vizier's black slave not said here | the pedler | before Vizier | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pedler=Theme before he=Destination |
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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