The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 24
The decision of the judge was praised by all the people, who were quick to acknowledge the generosity of the merchant who would have given his life to save his friend, and the honorable manner in which the guilty person had rescued from death the two who were innocent.
Who acts: people · What happens: praise, be, acknowledge, give, save, rescue · To what, where: decision, generosity, merchant, friend, honorable manner, death
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 (people), 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 decision | det |
| 2 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 praised | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 judge | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 judge | det |
| 5 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 decision | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 praised | aux:pass |
| 7 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 people | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 praised | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 quick | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 quick | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 quick | cop |
| 15 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 acknowledge | mark |
| 17 | acknowledge | acknowledge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 quick | csubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 generosity | det |
| 19 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 acknowledge | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 merchant | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 merchant | det |
| 22 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 generosity | nmod |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 given | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 given | aux |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 given | aux |
| 26 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 given | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 save | mark |
| 30 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 life | acl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 friend | nmod:poss |
| 32 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 save | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 rescued | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 rescued | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 manner | det |
| 36 | honorable | honorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 manner | amod |
| 37 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 rescued | obl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 person | det |
| 41 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 person | amod |
| 42 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 rescued | aux |
| 44 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 praised | conj |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 death | case |
| 46 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rescued | obl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 two | det |
| 48 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 rescued | obl |
| 49 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 innocent | nsubj |
| 50 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 innocent | cop |
| 51 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 two | acl:relcl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past · passive | all people | the decision of the judge | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all people | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | acknowledge | to-infinitive | the generosity of the merchant | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent generosity=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give | would · perfect · passive | the merchant | judge's life obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient life=Theme | ||||
| 5 | save | to-infinitive | judge's friend | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | |||||
| 6 | rescue | past · perfect · passive | the honorable manner | death | the two obl; which obl; the guilty person nsubj:pass | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from death=Source | |||
| 7 | is | past | who nsubj; innocent property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | decide | the judge | nom decision «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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