The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 98
Chance led these two worthies to the same town, and as their fates had been so much alike, they decided to set up house together.
Who acts: Chance, fates, worthies · What happens: lead, be, decide, set up, fate · To what, where: two worthies, same town, house
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 (Chance, fates, worthies), 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 | Chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 worthies | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 worthies | nummod |
| 5 | worthies | worthy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 led | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 town | amod |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 decided | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 decided | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 alike | mark |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fates | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fates | fate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 alike | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 alike | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 alike | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 alike | advmod |
| 19 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 decided | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 alike | punct |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 decided | nsubj |
| 22 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 set | mark |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 decided | xcomp |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obj |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 set | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Chance | this two worthies | the same town | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent worthy=Theme to town=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | worthies's fates | alike property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | decide | past | fates = fate | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | set up not said to happen | to-infinitive | fates = fate not said here | house | together property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result | |||
| 5 | fate | worthies = worthy | nom fate «event transitive»: 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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