The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 97
At the house of the Egyptian the merchant of Bagdad met a girl of wondrous beauty, and so smitten was he with her charms that he fell sick and pined away.
Who acts: merchant, BAGDAD · What happens: meet, smite, be, fall, pine away · To what, where: girl, house, 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 (merchant, BAGDAD), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Egyptian | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Egyptian | det |
| 6 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 house | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Bagdad | case |
| 10 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 merchant | nmod |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beauty | amod |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 smitten | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 smitten | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 smitten | advmod |
| 20 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 met | conj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 he | cop |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 smitten | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 charms | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 charms | nmod:poss |
| 25 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 smitten | obl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 fell | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fell | nsubj |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 smitten | advcl |
| 29 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fell | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pined | cc |
| 31 | pined | pine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 fell | conj |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 pined | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the merchant of Bagdad | a girl of wondrous beauty | the house of the Egyptian | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | smite | participle | the merchant of Bagdad not said here | with girl's charms | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with charm=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | BAGDAD | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | BAGDAD | sick property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pine away | participle | BAGDAD not said here | away property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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