The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 29
On the next morning after his arrival, while the merchants opened their bales of merchandise, Prince Ali took a walk into that quarter of the town where is the bazaar of the jewellers, in which they sold precious stones, gold and silver works, and other choice and valuable articles, for which Shiraz was celebrated.
Who acts: merchants, Ali, princes, silver, crier · What happens: open, take, be, sell, work, celebrate · To what, where: bales, walk, quarter, bazaar, precious stones, Shiraz
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 (merchants, Ali, princes, silver), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obl |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 arrival | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 opened | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 merchants | det |
| 11 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bales | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bales | bale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 opened | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 merchandise | case |
| 16 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bales | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 opened | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 walk | det |
| 22 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 quarter | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 quarter | det |
| 25 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 town | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 town | det |
| 28 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 quarter | nmod |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 bazaar | advmod |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 bazaar | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bazaar | det |
| 32 | bazaar | bazaar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 town | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 jewellers | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 jewellers | det |
| 35 | jewellers | jeweller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bazaar | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sold | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 sold | obl |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 sold | nsubj |
| 40 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | parataxis |
| 41 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 stones | amod |
| 42 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 sold | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 gold | punct |
| 44 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 stones | conj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 works | cc |
| 46 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 works | nsubj |
| 47 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 stones | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 choice | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 choice | cc |
| 50 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 choice | amod |
| 51 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sold | conj |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 articles | cc |
| 53 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 articles | amod |
| 54 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 choice | conj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 celebrated | punct |
| 56 | for | for | ADP | _ | 57 which | case |
| 57 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 60 celebrated | obl |
| 58 | Shiraz | Shiraz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 celebrated | nsubj |
| 59 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 60 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 choice | acl:relcl |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the merchants | brothers's bales of merchandise | morning | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bale=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | Ali Prince | a walk | that quarter of the town | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walk=Theme into quarter=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the bazaar | of the jewellers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sell | past | princes = prince | precious stones and gold | which obl; other choice and valuable articles conj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||
| 5 | work | present | silver | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | celebrate | past · passive | Shiraz | for other choice and valuable articles | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for which=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | arrive | crier | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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