The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 14
I have enjoyed his hospitality, and while at his home he bestowed upon me a wife, whom he had educated for his own, and who possessed great wealth.
Who acts: I, merchant · What happens: enjoy, bestow, educate, possess · To what, where: hospitality, wife, home, great wealth
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, merchant), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 enjoyed | aux |
| 3 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hospitality | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enjoyed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bestowed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bestowed | cc |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 bestowed | mark |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bestowed | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bestowed | nsubj |
| 13 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 enjoyed | parataxis |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bestowed | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wife | det |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bestowed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 educated | punct |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 educated | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 educated | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 educated | aux |
| 22 | educated | educate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 wife | acl:relcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 own | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 own | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 educated | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 possessed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 possessed | cc |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 possessed | nsubj |
| 29 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bestowed | conj |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wealth | amod |
| 31 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 possessed | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | present · perfect | I | merchant's hospitality | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hospitality=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bestow | past | merchant | a wife | merchant's home | upon me | tree rules | ||
| 3 | educate speech: other | past · perfect | merchant | a wife | for merchant's own | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient | |||
| 4 | possess | past | great wealth | who nsubj | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wealth=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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