The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 100
One day Mr. Sin fell sick of a fever, and though this annoyed Mr. Le, who was expecting some rich friends to dinner, he sent for the doctor, and gave directions that Mr. Sin was to be properly looked after.
Who acts: Sin, annoyed Le · What happens: fall, expect, send, give, look · To what, where: rich friends, directions
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sin, annoyed Le), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sin | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fever | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fever | det |
| 9 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sick | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sent | cc |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 Le | mark |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 Le | nsubj |
| 14 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Le | amod |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Le | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 expecting | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 expecting | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 expecting | aux |
| 20 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 Le | acl |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 friends | det |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 friends | amod |
| 23 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 expecting | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 dinner | case |
| 25 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 expecting | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Le | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sent | nsubj |
| 28 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 doctor | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 doctor | det |
| 31 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gave | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 gave | cc |
| 34 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 35 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 gave | obj |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 looked | nsubj |
| 37 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Sin | nmod:desc |
| 38 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 looked | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 looked | aux:pass |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 looked | mark |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 looked | aux:pass |
| 42 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 43 looked | advmod |
| 43 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 directions | acl:relcl |
| 44 | after | after | ADV | _ | 43 looked | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Sin Mr. | day | sick property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | expect | past · progressive | annoyed Le this Mr. | some rich friends | to dinner | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | |||
| 3 | send | past | SIN | for the doctor; annoyed Le this Mr. advcl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Sin Mr. not said here | directions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | past · passive | Sin Mr. not said here | directions | Sin Mr. nsubj; after, properly property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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