The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 12
To him Mobarec went and offered a purse of five hundred gold pieces, in the name of Prince Zeyn, to distribute among the poor.
Who acts: Mobarec · What happens: go, offer, distribute, name · To what, where: Bagdad, purse, name, Prince
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: who acts (Mobarec), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 offered | cc |
| 6 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 purse | det |
| 8 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offered | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pieces | case |
| 10 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hundred | compound |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pieces | nummod |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pieces | compound |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 purse | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 name | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 name | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offered | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Prince | case |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 name | nmod |
| 20 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Prince | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 distribute | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 distribute | mark |
| 23 | distribute | distribute | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 offered | parataxis |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 poor | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 poor | det |
| 26 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 distribute | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Mobarec | Bagdad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | Mobarec not said here | a purse of hundred gold pieces | the name of Prince | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent purse=Theme | |||
| 3 | distribute | to-infinitive | among the poor | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent among poor=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | name | Prince | nom name «communication 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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