The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 79
Knowing that his brother had an abundance of good rice-seed and splendid eggs, he begged him to lend him some.
Who acts: Musai, brother · What happens: know, have, beg, lend · To what, where: abundance, husband, some, Musai · 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, brother), 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 | Knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 begged | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 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 | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Knowing | ccomp |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 abundance | det |
| 7 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 seed | case |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seed | amod |
| 10 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seed | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 rice | punct |
| 12 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 abundance | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eggs | cc |
| 14 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eggs | amod |
| 15 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seed | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Knowing | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 begged | nsubj |
| 18 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 begged | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 lend | mark |
| 21 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 begged | xcomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lend | obj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 lend | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | Musai not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | past | Musai's brother | a abundance of good rice seed and splendid eggs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abundance=Patient | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | Musai | husband | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lend not said to happen | to-infinitive | Musai not said here | some | Musai | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient some=Theme |
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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