The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 49
But the offer of a magic pot, always full of rice and spoons which provided whatever he wished to eat with his rice, dissuaded him, and he started home happier than ever.
Who acts: rice, offer, JUAN · What happens: provide, wish, eat, dissuade, start, offer · To what, where: whatever, JUAN, magic pot
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rice, offer, JUAN), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 dissuaded | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 offer | det |
| 3 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dissuaded | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pot | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 6 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pot | compound |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 offer | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 full | punct |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 full | advmod |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pot | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rice | case |
| 12 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoons | cc |
| 14 | spoons | spoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rice | conj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 provided | nsubj |
| 16 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rice | acl:relcl |
| 17 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 provided | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wished | nsubj |
| 19 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wished | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 rice | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 rice | nmod:poss |
| 24 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eat | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 offer | punct |
| 26 | dissuaded | dissuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 dissuaded | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 started | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 started | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 started | nsubj |
| 31 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dissuaded | conj |
| 32 | home | home | ADV | _ | 31 started | advmod |
| 33 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 started | xcomp |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 35 ever | case |
| 35 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 33 happier | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 dissuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | past | rice and spoons | whatever | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition whatever=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | offer | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | offer not said here | with JUAN's rice | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | dissuade | past | the offer of a magic pot | JUAN | vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | start | past | JUAN | happy, home property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | offer | a magic pot | nom offer «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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