The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 89
In one of these bad men the two recognized the pedler who had sold the magic powder.
Who acts: two · What happens: recognize, sell · To what, where: pedler
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 (two), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 recognized | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 men | det |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 recognized | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 two | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 recognized | nsubj |
| 9 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pedler | det |
| 11 | pedler | pedler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recognized | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sold | aux |
| 14 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pedler | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 powder | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 powder | amod |
| 17 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sold | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 recognized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | past | the two | the pedler | in one; of this bad men | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pedler=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sell | past · perfect · passive | the pedler | the magic powder obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient powder=Theme |
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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