The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 91
The Caliph stuck the snuff-box in his girdle, and, having desired his servants to remain at home, started off with the Grand Vizier only in attendance.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: stick, desire, remain, start off · To what, where: snuff box, girdle, servants, home, attendance
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 | 3 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 box | det |
| 5 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 box | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 snuff | punct |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 girdle | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 box | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 desired | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 desired | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 and | punct |
| 14 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 desired | aux |
| 15 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 stuck | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 servants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 desired | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 remain | mark |
| 19 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 desired | ccomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remain | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 started | punct |
| 23 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stuck | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 started | compound:prt |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 Vizier | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Vizier | det |
| 27 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Vizier | amod |
| 28 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 started | obl |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 attendance | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 attendance | case |
| 31 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 started | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | past | the Caliph | the snuff box | Vizier's girdle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme in girdle=Destination | |||
| 2 | desire | gerund · perfect | the Caliph not said here | Vizier's servants | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Caliph not said here | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 4 | start off | past | the Caliph not said here | attendance | with the Grand Vizier | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with vizier=Subeventuality |
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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