The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 90
Next morning Caliph Chasid had barely finished dressing and breakfasting when the Grand Vizier arrived, according to orders, to accompany him on his expedition.
Who acts: Grand Vizier · What happens: finish, dress, breakfast, arrive, accord, accompany · To what, where: Next morning, Vizier, expedition
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), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | appos |
| 4 | Chasid | Chasid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Caliph | flat |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 finished | aux |
| 6 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 7 finished | advmod |
| 7 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | dressing | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 finished | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 breakfasting | cc |
| 10 | breakfasting | breakfast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 dressing | conj |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 arrived | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Vizier | det |
| 13 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Vizier | amod |
| 14 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 arrived | nsubj |
| 15 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 breakfasting | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 orders | punct |
| 17 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 orders | case |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 according | fixed |
| 19 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dressing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 accompany | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 accompany | mark |
| 22 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 finished | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 accompany | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 expedition | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 expedition | nmod:poss |
| 26 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 accompany | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect · passive | Next morning | barely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress | gerund | accord orders | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | breakfast | gerund | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | arrive | past | the Grand Vizier | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | accompany | to-infinitive | Vizier | Vizier's expedition | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on expedition=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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