The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 99
The father was so pleased with all these things that he offered his elder daughter to Lumawig for a wife.
Who acts: father · What happens: be, offer · To what, where: things, Lumawig
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 things | det:predet |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 things | det |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pleased | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 offered | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 offered | nsubj |
| 12 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 things | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daughter | amod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 offered | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Lumawig | case |
| 17 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 offered | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 wife | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wife | det |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 offered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the father | with all things; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | offer | past | Father | all things | Lumawig | for a wife; Father's elder daughter obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent that=Goal daughter=Theme |
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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