The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 93
If anything unusual should happen in the land of Egypt, the merchant of that country would send word of it to the other in Bagdad, who, in like manner, would in turn send news of events in his own land.
Who acts: anything, country · What happens: happen, send, word · To what, where: land, word, Bagdad, news, turn
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 (anything, country), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 happen | mark |
| 2 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 anything | amod |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | aux |
| 5 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 send | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happen | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Egypt | case |
| 10 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 land | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 merchant | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 merchant | det |
| 13 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Egypt | appos |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 send | mark |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 country | det |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 send | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 send | aux |
| 18 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 merchant | acl |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 send | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 word | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 other | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 send | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Bagdad | case |
| 26 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 send | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 manner | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 manner | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 manner | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 manner | case |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 manner | case |
| 32 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Bagdad | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happen | punct |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 send | aux |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 turn | case |
| 36 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 send | obl |
| 37 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 38 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 send | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 events | case |
| 40 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 news | nmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 land | case |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 land | nmod:poss |
| 43 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 land | amod |
| 44 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 send | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen a condition, not said to happen | should | anything | the land of Egypt | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in land=Location | ||||
| 2 | send | would | that country | word of land | Bagdad | to the other | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to other=Destination | ||
| 3 | send | would | news of events | turn | in country's own land | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent news=Theme in turn=Destination | |||
| 4 | word | land | nom word «communication 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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