The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 22
He and his courtiers stopped to rest at a pleasant spot, and refreshments were prepared for them.
Who acts: Varna · What happens: stop, rest, prepare · To what, where: pleasant spot, refreshments
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Varna), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 courtiers | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 He | conj |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rest | mark |
| 7 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stopped | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 spot | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 spot | det |
| 10 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spot | amod |
| 11 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rest | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prepared | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prepared | cc |
| 14 | refreshments | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 prepared | aux:pass |
| 16 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stopped | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 prepared | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Varna | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | Varna not said here | a pleasant spot | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at spot=Location | ||||
| 3 | prepare | past · passive | refreshments | for courtiers = courtier | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for they=Beneficiary |
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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