The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 38
The people told him he was one of the wealthiest inhabitants of the city; that he lived like a great lord, and that his house was open, especially for strangers.
Who acts: people, remarkable, house · What happens: tell, be, live · To what, where: remarkable, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, remarkable, house), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 told | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 inhabitants | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 inhabitants | det |
| 10 | wealthiest | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 inhabitants | amod |
| 11 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 inhabitants | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 lived | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 lord | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lord | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lord | amod |
| 22 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lived | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 open | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 open | cc |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 open | mark |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 open | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 open | cop |
| 29 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lived | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 strangers | punct |
| 31 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 33 strangers | advmod |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 strangers | case |
| 33 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 open | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the people | remarkable | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | remarkable | one | of the wealthiest inhabitants of the city | tree rules | |||
| 3 | live | past | remarkable | like a great lord | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | remarkable's house | for strangers; open property | tree rules |
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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