The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 23
Then was the fakir irritated and ashamed, and he said, “O King, this is only the abode of poor holy men, and not Gangar, which is the home of the seven famous giants.
Who acts: fakir, this, King · What happens: be, irritate, say · To what, where: fakir, abode, home · 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 (fakir, this, King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 was | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fakir | det |
| 4 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | irritated | irritate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fakir | acl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ashamed | cc |
| 7 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 irritated | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 King | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 King | punct |
| 14 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 15 King | case |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 abode | punct |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 abode | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 abode | cop |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 abode | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 abode | det |
| 21 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 King | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 men | amod |
| 24 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 men | amod |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 abode | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Gangar | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Gangar | cc |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 Gangar | advmod |
| 29 | Gangar | Gangar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 home | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 home | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 home | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 home | det |
| 34 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 King | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 giants | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 giants | det |
| 37 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 giants | nummod |
| 38 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 giants | amod |
| 39 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 home | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the fakir | then | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | irritate | participle | the fakir not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | FAKIR | King and Gangar and the home ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | this | the abode | of poor holy men | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | King and Gangar and the home | the home | of the seven famous giants | tree rules |
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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