The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 40

“I am a stranger,” answered the prince, “and having heard much of the lord Mobarec’s generosity, am come to take up my lodging with him.”

Who acts: stranger · What happens: be, answer, hear, come, take up · To what, where: stranger, prince, much, lodging · 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 (stranger), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 stranger	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stranger	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stranger	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stranger	det
5	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stranger	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 stranger	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
14	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 heard	aux
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 answered	parataxis
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 heard	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 lord	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lord	det
19	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 much	nmod
20	Mobarec	Mobarec	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 generosity	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Mobarec	case
22	generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lord	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 take	mark
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	xcomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 take	compound:prt
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 lodging	nmod:poss
30	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	a stranger = stranger	a stranger			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	a stranger		the prince		tree rules
3	hear in a quote	gerund · perfect		much of the lord			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
4	come in a quote	present					tree rules
5	take up in a quote	to-infinitive		my lodging		with Mobarec	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=Theme

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 40

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 40