The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 43
The King watched very closely to see how Vira-vara spent his pay, and found that half of it went towards the support of the Temple, a fourth was devoted to relieving the poor, and the remaining fourth only did he reserve for his own sustenance.
Who acts: King, Vira vara, half · What happens: watch, see, spend, find, go, devote · To what, where: pay, support, fourth, poor, Temple · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, Vira vara, half), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 closely | advmod |
| 5 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 3 watched | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 watched | xcomp |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 spent | advmod |
| 9 | Vira | Vira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 vara | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Vira | punct |
| 11 | vara | vara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spent | nsubj |
| 12 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pay | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pay | pay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spent | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 went | mark |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 went | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 half | nmod |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | ccomp |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 25 support | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 support | det |
| 25 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Temple | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Temple | det |
| 28 | Temple | Temple | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 support | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 devoted | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fourth | det |
| 31 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 devoted | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 devoted | aux:pass |
| 33 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 Temple | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 35 relieving | mark |
| 35 | relieving | relieve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 devoted | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 poor | det |
| 37 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 relieving | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 remaining | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 remaining | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 remaining | det |
| 41 | remaining | remain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 watched | advcl |
| 42 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 41 remaining | xcomp |
| 43 | only | only | ADV | _ | 46 reserve | advmod |
| 44 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 reserve | aux |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 reserve | nsubj |
| 46 | reserve | reserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 fourth | advcl |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 sustenance | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 sustenance | nmod:poss |
| 49 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 sustenance | amod |
| 50 | sustenance | sustenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 reserve | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the King | closely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | spend | past | Vira vara | King's pay | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pay=Asset | ||||
| 4 | find | past | the King not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go | past | half of vara | the support of the Temple | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards support=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | devote | past · passive | a fourth | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | relieve | gerund | the poor | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus poor=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | remain | gerund | the King not said here | fourth property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | reserve | past · do-support | King | for King's own sustenance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sustenance=Beneficiary | ||||
| 10 | pay | King | nom pay «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | support | the Temple | nom support «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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