The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 20
After this ceremony, Zeyn conducted the vizier to his house, where he treated him magnificently and gave him considerable presents.
Who acts: Zeyn, contract · What happens: conduct, treat, give · To what, where: vizier, house, cadi, considerable presents
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 (Zeyn, contract), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 ceremony | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ceremony | det |
| 3 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conducted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ceremony | punct |
| 5 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 conducted | nsubj |
| 6 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vizier | det |
| 8 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conducted | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conducted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 treated | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 treated | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 treated | nsubj |
| 15 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 conducted | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 treated | obj |
| 17 | magnificently | magnificently | ADV | _ | 15 treated | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 treated | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 presents | amod |
| 22 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past | Zeyn | the vizier | contract's house | after this ceremony | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vizier=Theme to house=Destination | ||
| 2 | treat | past | contract | cadi | magnificently property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | give | past | contract not said here | considerable presents | cadi | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient present=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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