The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 35

Seeing that he was poor, with clothes threadbare and torn, she despised him, and said, “What poor wretch is this with whom I have to contend?”

Who acts: man, Abibas, poor wretch · What happens: see, be, tear, despise, say, have · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Abibas, poor wretch), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 threadbare	csubj
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 poor	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poor	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	cop
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Seeing	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 clothes	case
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 threadbare	obl
9	threadbare	threadbare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 torn	cc
11	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 threadbare	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 despised	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 despised	nsubj
14	despised	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 threadbare	parataxis
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 despised	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 despised	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 whom	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 whom	punct
21	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 wretch	advmod
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wretch	amod
23	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 whom	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 whom	cop
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 whom	nsubj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 whom	case
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 said	parataxis
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 whom	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 contend	mark
31	contend	contend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 have	xcomp
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 threadbare	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 threadbare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	man		poor property	tree rules
3	tear	participle				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	despise	past	Abibas	man		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	say speech: ask	past	Abibas not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is in a quote	present	poor wretch		this nsubj	tree rules
7	have in a quote	present	Abibas			tree rules
8	contend in a quote	to-infinitive	Abibas not said here			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 35