The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 18
He had not been seated long before a crier appeared, with a piece of carpet on his arm, about six feet square, and offered it at forty purses.
Who acts: crier · What happens: not seat, appear, offer · To what, where: Houssain, piece, arm, forty purses
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 (crier), 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 | 5 seated | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 seated | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 seated | aux:pass |
| 5 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 seated | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 appeared | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 crier | det |
| 9 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seated | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 piece | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 piece | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 piece | det |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 carpet | case |
| 16 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 arm | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 arm | nmod:poss |
| 19 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 feet | punct |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 six | advmod |
| 22 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 feet | nummod |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 square | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 piece | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 offered | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 offered | cc |
| 27 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 appeared | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 offered | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 purses | case |
| 30 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 purses | nummod |
| 31 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 offered | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seat | past · perfect · passive | Houssain | long property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | a crier | a piece of carpet | Houssain's arm | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme | |||
| 3 | offer | past | a crier not said here | piece | forty purses | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=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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