The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 10
There lived at Bagdad at this time an imaum[2] of much repute and noted for his charity.
What happens: live, note · To what, where: imaum, Bagdad
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lived | expl |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Bagdad | case |
| 4 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 imaum | det |
| 9 | imaum | imaum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 11 2 | punct |
| 11 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 imaum | flat |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 2 | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 repute | case |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 repute | amod |
| 15 | repute | repute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 2 | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 noted | cc |
| 17 | noted | note | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 charity | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 charity | nmod:poss |
| 20 | charity | charity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 noted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a imaum | Bagdad; there | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bagdad=Location | |||
| 2 | note | past | for Bagdad's charity | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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