The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 9

In my own land I was, until recently, a man of wealth, and had all that riches could buy, but through no fault of mine I lost all this, and am now destitute.

Who acts: I, riches, man · What happens: be, have, buy, lose, fault · To what, where: man, own land, this, fault, mine

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, riches, man), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 land	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 land	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 land	amod
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 man	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
8	until	until	ADP	_	9 recently	case
9	recently	recently	ADV	_	12 man	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 wealth	case
14	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 man	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 riches	det:predet
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 riches	det
20	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 buy	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 buy	aux
22	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lost	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 lost	cc
25	through	through	ADP	_	27 fault	case
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 fault	det
27	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lost	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 mine	case
29	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fault	nmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 lost	nsubj
31	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 buy	parataxis
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 this	det:predet
33	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 lost	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 destitute	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 destitute	cc
36	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 destitute	cop
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 destitute	advmod
38	destitute	destitute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 man	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	a man	my own land		of wealth	tree rules
2	have	past	I not said here					tree rules
3	buy	could	all riches					vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	lose	past	I	this	no fault of mine			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
5	is	present	a man not said here			now	destitute property	tree rules
6	fault			mine				nom fault «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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 9

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 9