The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 105
After a while ill-fortune came to the merchant of Egypt, and he was without home or money.
Who acts: ill fortune, friend · What happens: come, be · To what, where: merchant
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 (ill fortune, friend), 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 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fortune | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ill | punct |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 merchant | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 merchant | det |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Egypt | case |
| 12 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 merchant | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 home | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 home | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 home | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 home | cop |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 home | case |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 money | cc |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 home | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | ill fortune | the merchant of Egypt | while | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to merchant=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | friend | without home or money; money conj | 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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