The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 64
The Caliph and his Vizier inspected everything, and the Caliph chose some handsome pistols for himself and Mansor, and a jeweled comb for the Vizier’s wife.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: inspect, choose, jewel · To what, where: everything, handsome pistols
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 inspected | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Vizier | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Vizier | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Caliph | conj |
| 6 | inspected | inspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 inspected | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chose | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chose | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Caliph | det |
| 11 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 chose | nsubj |
| 12 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 inspected | conj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 pistols | det |
| 14 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pistols | amod |
| 15 | pistols | pistol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chose | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 pistols | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Mansor | cc |
| 19 | Mansor | Mansor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 himself | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 comb | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 comb | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 comb | det |
| 23 | jeweled | jewel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 comb | amod |
| 24 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chose | obl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 wife | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Vizier | det |
| 27 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Vizier | case |
| 29 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 comb | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 inspected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inspect | past | the Caliph and slave's Vizier | everything | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | the Caliph | some handsome pistols | for slave; a jeweled comb for the Vizier's wife obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pistol=Theme for himself=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | jewel | participle | 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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