The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 24
After this convincing proof of the virtue of the carpet, he counted to the crier forty purses of gold, and gave him twenty pieces for himself.
Who acts: crier · What happens: count, give, proof · To what, where: twenty pieces, crier, virtue
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 proof | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 proof | det |
| 3 | convincing | convincing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 proof | amod |
| 4 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 counted | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 virtue | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 virtue | det |
| 7 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proof | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 carpet | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 carpet | det |
| 10 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 virtue | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 proof | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 counted | nsubj |
| 13 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 crier | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crier | det |
| 16 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 counted | obl |
| 17 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 purses | nummod |
| 18 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 crier | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 purses | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 counted | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 pieces | nummod |
| 26 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gave | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 himself | case |
| 28 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 gave | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | crier | after this convincing proof of the virtue of the carpet | to the crier forty purses of gold | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to crier=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | give | past | crier not said here | twenty pieces | crier | for crier | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Theme for himself=Asset | ||
| 3 | proof | the virtue of the carpet | nom proof «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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