The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 12
He lodged at a khan appointed for foreign merchants, and soon learned that there were four principal bazaars where merchants of all sorts kept their shops, on a large extent of ground, in the centre of the city.
Who acts: Houssain, four principal bazaars, merchants · What happens: lodge, appoint, learn, be, keep, extend · To what, where: khan, large extent, shops, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houssain, four principal bazaars, merchants), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lodged | nsubj |
| 2 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 khan | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 khan | det |
| 5 | khan | khan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lodged | obl |
| 6 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 khan | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 merchants | case |
| 8 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 merchants | amod |
| 9 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 appointed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 learned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 learned | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 learned | advmod |
| 13 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lodged | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 were | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 were | expl |
| 16 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 learned | ccomp |
| 17 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 bazaars | nummod |
| 18 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bazaars | amod |
| 19 | bazaars | bazaar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 were | nsubj |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 kept | advmod |
| 21 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kept | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sorts | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 sorts | det |
| 24 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 merchants | nmod |
| 25 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bazaars | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 shops | nmod:poss |
| 27 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kept | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 extent | punct |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 extent | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 extent | det |
| 31 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 extent | amod |
| 32 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 learned | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 ground | case |
| 34 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 extent | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 centre | punct |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 centre | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 centre | det |
| 38 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 learned | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 city | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 city | det |
| 41 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 centre | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lodged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lodge | past | Houssain | a khan | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at khan=Location | ||||
| 2 | appoint | participle | a khan not said here | for foreign merchants | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | learn | past | Houssain not said here | a large extent of ground | in the centre of the city; soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | be | past | four principal bazaars | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | merchants of all sorts | bazaars's shops | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme | ||||
| 6 | extend | ground | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/12/