The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 17
After Prince Houssain had passed through that quarter, street by street, a merchant, perceiving him go by much fatigued, invited him to sit down in front of his shop.
Who acts: Houssain · What happens: pass, perceive, go, fatigue, invite, sit down · To what, where: quarter, Houssain, front
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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 Houssain | case |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Houssain | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 quarter | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 quarter | det |
| 8 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 street | punct |
| 10 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quarter | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 street | case |
| 12 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 street | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 merchant | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 merchant | det |
| 15 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quarter | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 perceiving | punct |
| 17 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 passed | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 perceiving | obj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 perceiving | xcomp |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 fatigued | mark |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 fatigued | advmod |
| 22 | fatigued | fatigue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 go | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 invited | punct |
| 24 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 invited | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 sit | mark |
| 27 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 invited | xcomp |
| 28 | down | down | ADP | _ | 27 sit | compound:prt |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 front | case |
| 30 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sit | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 shop | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 shop | nmod:poss |
| 33 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 front | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | that quarter and street by street and a merchant | after Houssain Prince | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through quarter=Location | ||||
| 2 | perceive | gerund | Houssain | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fatigue | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | invite | past | Houssain | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sit down not said to happen | to-infinitive | Houssain not said here | front of Houssain's shop | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
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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