The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 24

Chasid listened with favor to his servant’s suggestion, and perceiving in the valley beneath them a ruin which seemed to promise shelter, they flew toward it.

Who acts: Chasid, ruin, servant · What happens: listen, perceive, seem, promise, fly, suggest · To what, where: ruin, valley, shelter

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chasid, ruin, servant), 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	Chasid	Chasid	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 favor	case
4	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listened	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 suggestion	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 servant	nmod:poss
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suggestion	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 servant	case
9	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 perceiving	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 perceiving	cc
12	perceiving	perceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 listened	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 valley	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 valley	det
15	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceiving	obl
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 perceiving	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ruin	det
19	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceiving	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 seemed	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ruin	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 promise	mark
23	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 seemed	xcomp
24	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 promise	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flew	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flew	nsubj
27	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	parataxis
28	toward	toward	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flew	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	past	Chasid			with favor; to Vizier's servant's suggestion	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to suggestion=Theme
2	perceive	gerund	Chasid not said here	a ruin	the valley	beneath Chasid	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ruin=Stimulus
3	seem	past	a ruin				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	a ruin not said here	shelter			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme
5	fly	past	Chasid		shelter		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward it=Trajectory
6	suggest		Vizier's servant				nom suggestion «cognition 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: «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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 24