The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 41
Now he had a friend who lived in China, and to him he wrote, offering him a very large sum of money if he would procure that which he desired.
Who acts: old, friend · What happens: have, live, write, offer, procure, desire · To what, where: friend, China, old, large sum, money
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old, friend), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friend | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 China | case |
| 9 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wrote | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wrote | cc |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wrote | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wrote | nsubj |
| 15 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 offering | punct |
| 17 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 wrote | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 offering | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sum | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 large | advmod |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sum | amod |
| 22 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 offering | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 money | case |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sum | nmod |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 procure | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 procure | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 procure | aux |
| 28 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 offering | advcl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 desired | mark |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 desired | nsubj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 desired | nsubj |
| 32 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 procure | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | old | a friend | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | |||
| 2 | live | past | a friend | China | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location | ||||
| 3 | write | past | old | old | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | offer | gerund | old not said here | a large sum of money | old | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal sum=Theme | |||
| 5 | procure a condition, not said to happen | would | old | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | desire | past | which nsubj; old nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | sum | money | nom sum «possession 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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