The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 50
Guido was very honest, and even though he was poor he made no attempt to open the packages until he had caused notice to be given throughout the city that if any asses had been lost, the owners should come to him.
Who acts: Guido, city, owners · What happens: be, make, open, cause, give, lose · To what, where: attempt, packages, notice, asses, Guido
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 (Guido, city, owners), 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 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 honest | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 honest | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 honest | advmod |
| 4 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 poor | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 poor | cc |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 poor | advmod |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 poor | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 poor | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 poor | cop |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 honest | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 poor | acl:relcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 attempt | det |
| 15 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 open | mark |
| 17 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 attempt | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 packages | det |
| 19 | packages | package | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 open | obj |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 caused | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 caused | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 caused | aux |
| 23 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 open | advcl |
| 24 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caused | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 given | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 given | aux:pass |
| 27 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 notice | acl |
| 28 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 30 city | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 city | det |
| 30 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 given | obl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 lost | mark |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 lost | mark |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 asses | det |
| 34 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 lost | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 lost | aux:pass |
| 37 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 city | acl:relcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 come | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 owners | det |
| 40 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 come | nsubj |
| 41 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 come | aux |
| 42 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 lost | conj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 come | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 honest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Guido | honest property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Guido | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Guido | no attempt | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product | ||||
| 4 | open | to-infinitive | Guido not said here | the packages | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location package=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cause | past · perfect | Guido | notice | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 6 | give | to-infinitive · passive | Guido not said here | notice not said here | throughout the city | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V» | |||
| 7 | lose a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the city not said here | any asses | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | come | should | the owners | Guido | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location |
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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