The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 15
The shops were of the same size and proportion; and all who dealt in the same sort of goods lived in one avenue.
Who acts: shops, all · What happens: be, deal, live, sort · To what, where: same sort, one avenue, goods
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 (shops, all), 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 shops | det |
| 2 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 size | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 size | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 size | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 size | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 size | amod |
| 7 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 proportion | cc |
| 9 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 size | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 lived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 all | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 dealt | nsubj |
| 14 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sort | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sort | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sort | amod |
| 18 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dealt | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 goods | case |
| 20 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 sort | nmod |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 size | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 avenue | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 avenue | nummod |
| 24 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 size | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the shops | of the same size and proportion; proportion conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deal | past | the same sort of goods | who nsubj | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live | past | all | one avenue | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in avenue=Location | ||||
| 4 | sort | goods | nom sort «cognition 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.
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