The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 113
He told his brother how this good fortune had come to him in a dream, and this made Chô more jealous of him than before.
Who acts: Musai, good fortune, this · What happens: tell, come, make · To what, where: brother, Musai, dream, Chô · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musai, good fortune, this), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 come | advmod |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 fortune | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fortune | amod |
| 8 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 come | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dream | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dream | det |
| 15 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 20 | Chô | Chô | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 jealous | advmod |
| 22 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 made | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 jealous | obl |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 before | case |
| 26 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 jealous | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Musai | Musai's brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | this good fortune | Musai | a dream | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | make | past | this | Chô | jealous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chô=Product |
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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