The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 104
So the sick merchant, overjoyed at his good fortune, received both the lady and her wealth, and returned with her to Bagdad.
Who acts: sick merchant · What happens: overjoy, receive, return · To what, where: sick merchant, good fortune, lady, Bagdad
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sick merchant), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 received | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 merchant | det |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 merchant | amod |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 received | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 overjoyed | punct |
| 6 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 merchant | acl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 fortune | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fortune | amod |
| 10 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overjoyed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 merchant | punct |
| 12 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 15 lady | cc:preconj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lady | det |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 received | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wealth | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lady | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 returned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 returned | cc |
| 21 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 received | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 returned | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Bagdad | case |
| 25 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 returned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | participle | the sick merchant not said here | friend's good fortune | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the sick merchant | the lady and girl's wealth | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the sick merchant not said here | Bagdad | with girl | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bagdad=Result |
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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