The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 38

And learning that he was stopping at the house of an old woman in the city, till the hour of playing chaupur arrived, Sarkap sent slaves to him with trays of sweetmeats and fruit, as to an honored guest.

Who acts: hour, King, Sarkap · What happens: learn, stop, play, arrive, send, honor · To what, where: house, chaupur, slaves, King

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, King, Sarkap), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 learning	cc
2	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 arrived	advcl
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 stopping	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stopping	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stopping	aux
6	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 learning	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopping	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 woman	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 city	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 woman	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hour	punct
18	till	till	ADP	_	20 hour	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hour	det
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 arrived	nsubj
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 playing	mark
22	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 hour	acl
23	chaupur	chaupur	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 playing	obj
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sent	punct
26	Sarkap	Sarkap	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sent	nsubj
27	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 arrived	conj
28	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sent	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sent	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 trays	case
32	trays	tray	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sent	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 sweetmeats	case
34	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 trays	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fruit	cc
36	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sweetmeats	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 guest	punct
38	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	42 guest	case
39	to	to	ADP	_	38 as	fixed
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 guest	det
41	honored	honor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 guest	amod
42	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sent	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	learn	gerund	the hour not said here					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	past · progressive	King			the house of a old woman in the city		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location
3	play	gerund	the hour not said here	chaupur				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme
4	arrive	past	the hour					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	send	past	Sarkap	slaves	King		with trays of sweetmeats and fruit; a honored guest conj	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slave=Theme to he=Destination
6	honor	participle						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 38

The tree

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 38