The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 97
And so Mr. Sin’s superiors requested him to resign, and this he did, but not before he also had become quite wealthy.
Who acts: superiors, this, SIN · What happens: request, resign, do, not become · To what, where: SIN
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 (superiors, this, SIN), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 requested | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 requested | advmod |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sin | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 superiors | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Sin | case |
| 6 | superiors | superior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 requested | nsubj |
| 7 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 requested | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 resign | mark |
| 10 | resign | resign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 requested | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 did | cc |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 did | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 requested | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 become | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 become | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 become | advmod |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 become | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 become | nsubj |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 23 become | advmod |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 become | aux |
| 23 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 requested | conj |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 wealthy | advmod |
| 25 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 become | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 requested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | past | Sin Mr.'s superiors | SIN | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | resign | to-infinitive | Sin Mr.'s superiors not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past | this | SIN nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not become | past · perfect | SIN | wealthy property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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