The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 96
Greeting fair, and room to rest in; fire, and water from the well— Honor him for thine own honor—better is he than the best.
Who acts: book, thine · What happens: greet, rest, honor, be · To what, where: book, fair room
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 (book, thine), 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 | Greeting | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fair | amod |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 room | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 room | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 room | cc |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rest | mark |
| 7 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 room | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 rest | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 fire | punct |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 water | cc |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 room | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 well | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 well | det |
| 16 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 water | nmod |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Honor | punct |
| 18 | Honor | honor | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 room | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 Honor | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 honor | case |
| 21 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 honor | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 honor | amod |
| 23 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Honor | obl |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 better | punct |
| 25 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 Honor | parataxis |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 best | cop |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 best | nsubj |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 best | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 best | det |
| 30 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 better | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 room | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | gerund | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | honor | infinitive | book | for thine own honor | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for honor=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is | present | book | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | honor | thine | nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=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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