The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 43
Zeyn went in, crossed a large court, and entered a hall magnificently furnished, where Mobarec received him very courteously, returning thanks for the honor he did him in accepting a lodging in his house.
Who acts: Zeyn, Mobarec, prince · What happens: go in, cross, enter, furnish, receive, return · To what, where: large court, hall, prince, thanks, Mobarec, lodging
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 (Zeyn, Mobarec, prince), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 crossed | punct |
| 5 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 court | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 court | amod |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crossed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 entered | cc |
| 11 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hall | det |
| 13 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | obj |
| 14 | magnificently | magnificently | ADV | _ | 15 furnished | advmod |
| 15 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 entered | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 received | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 received | advmod |
| 18 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 received | nsubj |
| 19 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 furnished | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 received | obj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 courteously | advmod |
| 22 | courteously | courteously | ADV | _ | 19 received | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 returning | punct |
| 24 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 received | advcl |
| 25 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 returning | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 honor | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 honor | det |
| 28 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thanks | nmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 did | nsubj |
| 30 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 honor | acl:relcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 did | obj |
| 32 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 33 accepting | mark |
| 33 | accepting | accept | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 did | advcl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 lodging | det |
| 35 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 accepting | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 house | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 house | nmod:poss |
| 38 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 accepting | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | Zeyn | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cross | past | Zeyn not said here | a large court | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Patient | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | Zeyn not said here | a hall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||||
| 4 | furnish | past | Zeyn not said here | magnificently property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | receive | past | Mobarec | prince | courteously property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 6 | return | gerund | Mobarec not said here | thanks | for the honor | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | |||
| 7 | do | past | prince | Mobarec | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | accept | gerund | prince not said here | a lodging | prince's house | vn obtain-13.5.2 «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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