Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 8
The elder brother, after the father’s death, for some time had great success in trade.
Who acts: elder brother, father · What happens: have, die · To what, where: great success, trade
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother, father), 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 | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 death | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 death | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | nmod |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 success | amod |
| 16 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 trade | case |
| 18 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 success | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the elder brother for some time and the father's death | great success | trade | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Patient | |||
| 2 | die | the father | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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