The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 91
It was a delicious kind of sweetmeat, the like of which he had never tasted before; and the strangest thing about it was that it took his hunger and thirst away.
Who acts: slab, it, Wang · What happens: be, not taste, thirst away, hunger · To what, where: delicious kind
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 (slab, it, Wang), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kind | det |
| 4 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kind | amod |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sweetmeat | case |
| 7 | sweetmeat | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tasted | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 which | det |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 tasted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tasted | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tasted | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 tasted | advmod |
| 16 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 kind | acl |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 tasted | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 thing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 thing | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thing | det |
| 21 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 thing | amod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kind | conj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thing | nmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 took | cop |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 took | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thing | parataxis |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 thirst | cc |
| 32 | thirst | thirst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 28 took | conj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 thirst | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | slab | a delicious kind and the strangest thing about sweetmeat | of sweetmeat; the strangest thing about sweetmeat conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not taste | past · perfect · passive | a delicious kind and the strangest thing about sweetmeat | Wang nsubj; before property | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | it | Wang's hunger obj; take property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | thirst away | present | away property | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | hunger | Wang | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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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