The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 91
A rich man in a certain town once owned a dog and a cat, both of which were very useful to him.
Who acts: rich man, both · What happens: own, be · To what, where: dog
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 (rich man, both), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 owned | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 owned | advmod |
| 9 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 owned | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cat | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cat | det |
| 14 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dog | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 useful | punct |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 useful | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 both | nmod |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 useful | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 useful | advmod |
| 21 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 owned | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 useful | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 owned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past | a rich man in a certain town | a dog and a cat | once property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dog=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | both | dog | useful property | tree rules |
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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