The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 26
By sitting on this carpet, it was in his power to be at the place of meeting that very day; but as he would be obliged to wait there for his brothers until the time they had agreed on, he chose to make a longer abode in this capital.
Who acts: carpet, that, brothers, crier · What happens: sit, be, day, oblige, wait, agree · To what, where: carpet, power, place, crier, time, longer abode
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 (carpet, that, brothers, 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 sitting | mark |
| 2 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 power | advcl |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 carpet | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 carpet | det |
| 5 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sitting | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sitting | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 power | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 power | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 power | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 power | nmod:poss |
| 11 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 place | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 place | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 power | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 meeting | case |
| 18 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 day | nsubj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 day | advmod |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meeting | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 chose | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 chose | cc |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 obliged | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 obliged | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 obliged | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 obliged | aux:pass |
| 28 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 chose | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 wait | mark |
| 30 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 obliged | xcomp |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 wait | advmod |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 brothers | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 34 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 wait | obl |
| 35 | until | until | ADP | _ | 37 time | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wait | obl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 agreed | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 agreed | aux |
| 40 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 time | acl:relcl |
| 41 | on | on | ADV | _ | 40 agreed | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 obliged | punct |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 chose | nsubj |
| 44 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 power | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 make | mark |
| 46 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 chose | xcomp |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 abode | det |
| 48 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 49 abode | amod |
| 49 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 make | obj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 capital | case |
| 51 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 capital | det |
| 52 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 make | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 power | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | carpet not said here | this carpet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on carpet=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | carpet | crier's power | crier nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | carpet not said here | the place | of meeting | tree rules | |||
| 4 | day | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | oblige | would · passive | crier | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 6 | wait | to-infinitive | there | time | for crier's brothers | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | brothers = brother | the time not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent time=Topic | ||||
| 8 | choose | past | crier | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | make | to-infinitive | crier not said here | a longer abode | this capital | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset abode=Product |
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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