The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 59
On my return here I made use of no other conveyance than this wonderful carpet, for which I paid forty purses.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: make, pay, return, use · To what, where: use, return, forty purses, other conveyance
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 (I, my), 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 | _ | 3 return | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 return | nmod:poss |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 return | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 conveyance | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 conveyance | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 conveyance | amod |
| 11 | conveyance | conveyance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 use | nmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 carpet | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 carpet | det |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 carpet | amod |
| 15 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conveyance | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 paid | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 paid | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 paid | nsubj |
| 20 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 21 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 purses | nummod |
| 22 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 paid | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | I | use of no other conveyance than this wonderful carpet | my return | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product | |||
| 2 | pay | past | I | forty purses | which obl | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent purse=Asset for which=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | my | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | use | no other conveyance than this wonderful carpet | nom use «act 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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