The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 56
Every day spent with the fairy Perie was a continual feast, for every day she provided new delicacies, new concerts, new dances, new shows, and new diversions, which were all so gratifying to the senses that Ahmed, if he had lived a thousand years among men, could not have experienced equal enjoyment.
Who acts: day, fairy, new diversions, Perie · What happens: spend, be, provide, gratify, live, not experience · To what, where: day, continual feast, new delicacies, equal enjoyment
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, fairy, new diversions, Perie), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feast | nsubj |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fairy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obl |
| 7 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fairy | appos |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 feast | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 10 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feast | amod |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 day | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feast | appos |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 provided | nsubj |
| 17 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 day | acl:relcl |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 delicacies | amod |
| 19 | delicacies | delicacy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 provided | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 concerts | punct |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 concerts | amod |
| 22 | concerts | concert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 delicacies | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dances | punct |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dances | amod |
| 25 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 delicacies | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shows | punct |
| 27 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 shows | amod |
| 28 | shows | show | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 delicacies | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 diversions | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 diversions | cc |
| 31 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 diversions | amod |
| 32 | diversions | diversion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feast | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gratifying | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 gratifying | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 gratifying | aux |
| 36 | all | all | ADV | _ | 38 gratifying | advmod |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 gratifying | advmod |
| 38 | gratifying | gratify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 diversions | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 senses | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 senses | det |
| 41 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 gratifying | obl |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 Ahmed | nsubj |
| 43 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 senses | appos |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 lived | punct |
| 45 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 48 lived | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 lived | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 lived | aux |
| 48 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 gratifying | advcl |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 thousand | det |
| 50 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 51 years | nummod |
| 51 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 52 | among | among | ADP | _ | 53 men | case |
| 53 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 lived | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 experienced | punct |
| 55 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 58 experienced | aux |
| 56 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 58 experienced | advmod |
| 57 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 58 experienced | aux |
| 58 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 feast | parataxis |
| 59 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 enjoyment | amod |
| 60 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 experienced | obj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 feast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | participle | every day not said here | with the fairy | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | every day | a continual feast | new diversions appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | provide | past | fairy | new delicacies and new concerts and new dances and new shows | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition delicacy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gratify | past · progressive | new diversions | to the senses; all property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | live a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Perie | year | among men | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among man=Location | |||
| 6 | not experience | could · perfect | equal enjoyment | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enjoyment=Stimulus |
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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