The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 100
Zeyn, seeing all his wealth consumed, repented that he had made no better use of it.
Who acts: Zeyn, SULTAN · What happens: see, consume, repent, make, use · To what, where: wealth, better use, use
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zeyn, SULTAN), 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 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 consumed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Zeyn | punct |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 consumed | csubj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 wealth | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seeing | obj |
| 7 | consumed | consume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 repented | punct |
| 9 | repented | repent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 consumed | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | aux |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 repented | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 use | advmod |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 use | amod |
| 16 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 use | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 consumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | SULTAN's wealth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wealth=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | consume | past | Zeyn | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | repent | past | Zeyn not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect | SULTAN | better use of use | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | use | use | 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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