The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 71
“Most gracious lord and master,” replied the Vizier, “near the great Mosque lives a man called Selim the learned, who knows every language under the sun. Send for him; it may be that he will be able to interpret those mysterious characters.”
Who acts: Most gracious lord, man, sun., it · What happens: reply, live, call, learn, know, send · To what, where: Vizier, man, great Mosque, language, mysterious characters · 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 (Most gracious lord, man, sun., it), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lord | punct |
| 2 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 lord | amod |
| 3 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lord | amod |
| 4 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 master | cc |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lord | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lord | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lord | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Vizier | det |
| 11 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 Mosque | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mosque | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Mosque | amod |
| 17 | Mosque | Mosque | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lives | obl |
| 18 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lives | obj |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 man | acl |
| 22 | Selim | Selim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 learned | det |
| 24 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 man | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 knows | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 knows | nsubj |
| 27 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | acl:relcl |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 language | det |
| 29 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knows | obj |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 33 Send | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sun. | det |
| 32 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Send | nsubj |
| 33 | Send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 knows | advcl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 Send | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 able | punct |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 able | nsubj |
| 38 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 able | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 able | cop |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 able | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 able | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 able | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 able | cop |
| 44 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 interpret | mark |
| 46 | interpret | interpret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 able | xcomp |
| 47 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 49 characters | det |
| 48 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 characters | amod |
| 49 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 interpret | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Most gracious lord and master | the Vizier | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present | Most gracious lord and master not said here | a man | the great Mosque | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | |||
| 3 | call in a quote | participle | a man not said here | Selim xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | learn in a quote | participle | a man not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | a man | every language | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | send in a quote | infinitive | the sun. | for Vizier | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | may · future | it | Vizier nsubj; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | interpret in a quote | to-infinitive | that mysterious characters | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme |
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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