The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 8
There was once a fakir who had gained such a wide reputation for working wonders that Rájá Rasalu, King of Sialkot, determined to pay him a visit.
Who acts: fakir · What happens: be, gain, work, pay · To what, where: wide reputation, FAKIR
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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fakir | det |
| 5 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 gained | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gained | aux |
| 8 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 fakir | acl:relcl |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 reputation | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 reputation | det |
| 11 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reputation | amod |
| 12 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gained | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 wonders | case |
| 14 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 wonders | amod |
| 15 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gained | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 determined | nsubj |
| 17 | Rájá | Rájá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 determined | nsubj |
| 18 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Rájá | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 King | punct |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Rájá | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Sialkot | case |
| 22 | Sialkot | Sialkot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 King | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 determined | punct |
| 24 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wonders | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 pay | mark |
| 26 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 determined | xcomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pay | obj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 visit | det |
| 29 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pay | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a fakir | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | gain | past · perfect | a fakir | such wide reputation | for working wonders | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent reputation=Theme for wonder=Source | |||
| 3 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pay | to-infinitive | a fakir not said here | FAKIR | a visit obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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