The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 31
Then he procured a piece of the finest silk, knowing that this would attract the attention of most young women.
Who acts: man, this, most young women · What happens: procure, know, attract, attend · To what, where: piece, attention
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, this, most young women), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 procured | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 procured | nsubj |
| 3 | procured | procure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 procured | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 silk | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 silk | det |
| 8 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 silk | amod |
| 9 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 piece | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knowing | punct |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 procured | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 attract | mark |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 attract | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 attract | aux |
| 15 | attract | attract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knowing | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 attention | det |
| 17 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attract | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 women | case |
| 19 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 women | amod |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 women | amod |
| 21 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 attention | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 procured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | procure | past | man | a piece of the finest silk | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | attract | would | this | the attention of most young women | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | ||||
| 4 | attend | most young women | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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