The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 102
He was welcomed by the guards, who were pleased to congratulate him upon the way in which he had listened to and heeded their good advice and counsel.
Who acts: guards, youth · What happens: welcome, be, congratulate, listen, heed · To what, where: youth, good advice
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, youth), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 3 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 guards | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guards | det |
| 6 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 welcomed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleased | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 pleased | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 guards | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 congratulate | mark |
| 12 | congratulate | congratulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pleased | xcomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 congratulate | obj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 congratulate | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 listened | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 listened | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 listened | aux |
| 21 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 way | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 listened | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 heeded | cc |
| 24 | heeded | heed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 listened | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 advice | nmod:poss |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 advice | amod |
| 27 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heeded | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 counsel | cc |
| 29 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 advice | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past · passive | the guards | youth | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the guards | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | congratulate | to-infinitive | the guards not said here | youth | upon the way | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | listen | past · perfect | youth | in the way | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme | ||||
| 5 | heed | past | youth not said here | guards's good advice and counsel | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=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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