The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 116
Now among those who went to witness the execution was the merchant whom he had befriended, and who knew him at once.
Who acts: execution, thought · What happens: go, be, befriend, know · To what, where: those, merchant, thought
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 (execution, thought), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | among | among | ADP | _ | 3 those | case |
| 3 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 witness | mark |
| 7 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 execution | det |
| 9 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 merchant | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 merchant | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 merchant | det |
| 12 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 befriended | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 befriended | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 befriended | aux |
| 16 | befriended | befriend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 knew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knew | cc |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 knew | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | those | now | who nsubj; witness advcl | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among that=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the execution | the merchant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | befriend | past · perfect | thought | the merchant | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | past | thought | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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