The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 85
In his wanderings the second youth discovered gold, silver and precious stones in such abundance that neither the beauty of the flowers, with their fragrance, nor the lusciousness of the fruit appealed to him at all.
Who acts: beauty, first · What happens: discover, appeal, wander · To what, where: such abundance, first, all, discovered gold
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 (beauty, first), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wanderings | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gold | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 youth | amod |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gold | nsubj |
| 7 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gold | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 silver | punct |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gold | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stones | cc |
| 12 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stones | amod |
| 13 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gold | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 abundance | case |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 abundance | amod |
| 16 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stones | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 appealed | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 beauty | cc:preconj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beauty | det |
| 20 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 appealed | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 flowers | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flowers | det |
| 23 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 beauty | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fragrance | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 fragrance | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fragrance | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flowers | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lusciousness | punct |
| 29 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 31 lusciousness | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lusciousness | det |
| 31 | lusciousness | lusciousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beauty | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fruit | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fruit | det |
| 34 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lusciousness | nmod |
| 35 | appealed | appeal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 abundance | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 appealed | obl |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 all | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 appealed | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | participle | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | appeal | past | the beauty of the flowers and flowers's fragrance nor the lusciousness of the fruit | such abundance | first | all | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to he=Experiencer | ||
| 4 | wander | first | nom wandering «act transitive»: 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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