The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 56
Guido took the stone to a well-known dealer in jewels, who at once offered him a considerable sum of money for it, but this he refused.
Who acts: Guido, jewels, this · What happens: take, know, offer, refuse, sum · To what, where: stone, jewels, considerable sum, Guido, money
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, jewels, 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 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 dealer | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dealer | det |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 known | advmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 well | punct |
| 9 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 dealer | amod |
| 10 | dealer | dealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 jewels | case |
| 12 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 offered | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 offered | nsubj |
| 15 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 17 offered | mark |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 offered | advmod |
| 17 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 jewels | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 offered | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sum | det |
| 20 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sum | amod |
| 21 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 offered | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 money | case |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sum | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 money | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 refused | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 refused | cc |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 refused | nsubj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 refused | nsubj |
| 30 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Guido | the stone | jewels | to a known dealer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme to dealer=Destination | ||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | offer | past | jewels | a considerable sum of money for stone | Guido | once property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal sum=Theme | ||
| 4 | refuse | past | this | Guido nsubj | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sum | money for stone | 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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