The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 84
When Selim the learned had read this the Caliph was delighted.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: learn, read, be · To what, where: Selim
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 2 | Selim | Selim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 read | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 learned | det |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Selim | acl |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 read | aux |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 delighted | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 read | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Caliph | det |
| 9 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 delighted | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 delighted | cop |
| 11 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | Selim not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | read | past · perfect · passive | Selim | this obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient this=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the Caliph | delighted property | 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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