The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 1
The youth told the king all about the wonderful garden, and said that it was his great desire to meet the master of so enchanting a place, and to express to him his thanks for the great pleasure that had been his while living in such a paradise.
Who acts: youth, master, great pleasure · What happens: tell, say, be, meet, enchant, express · To what, where: king, great desire, master, place, paradise · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, master, great pleasure), 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 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 garden | advmod |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 garden | amod |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 desire | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 desire | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 desire | cop |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 desire | nmod:poss |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 desire | amod |
| 19 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 meet | mark |
| 21 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 master | det |
| 23 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meet | obj |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 enchanting | mark |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 enchanting | advmod |
| 26 | enchanting | enchant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 master | acl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 enchanting | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 express | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 express | cc |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 express | mark |
| 32 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 express | obl |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 thanks | nmod:poss |
| 36 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 express | discourse |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 pleasure | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 pleasure | det |
| 39 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 pleasure | amod |
| 40 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thanks | nmod |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 his | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 his | aux |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 his | cop |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 pleasure | acl:relcl |
| 45 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 46 living | mark |
| 46 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 express | advcl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 paradise | case |
| 48 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 50 paradise | det:predet |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 paradise | det |
| 50 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 living | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the youth | the king | about the wonderful garden | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent king=Recipient about garden=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youth not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | youth | king's great desire | king nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | the master | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | enchant | gerund | the master not said here | a place | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus place=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | express | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | king | king's thanks for the great pleasure discourse | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 7 | is a | past · perfect | the great pleasure | king | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | live | gerund | the youth not said here | such paradise | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in paradise=Location |
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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