The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 72
Opulo told the owner of the house in which he obtained lodgings that he intended to live there permanently, so the worthy man kindly promised to help him all he could.
Who acts: Opulo, worthy man · What happens: tell, obtain, intend, live, promise, help · To what, where: owner, lodgings, house, Opulo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Opulo, worthy man), 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 | Opulo | Opulo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 owner | det |
| 4 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 owner | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 obtained | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 obtained | nsubj |
| 11 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 house | acl:relcl |
| 12 | lodgings | lodging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 obtained | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 intended | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 intended | nsubj |
| 15 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lodgings | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 live | mark |
| 17 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 intended | xcomp |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 live | advmod |
| 19 | permanently | permanently | ADV | _ | 17 live | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 promised | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 promised | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 promised | nsubj |
| 25 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 26 promised | advmod |
| 26 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 help | mark |
| 28 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 promised | xcomp |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 help | obj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 could | det |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 could | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 help | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Opulo | the owner of the house | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | obtain | past | Opulo | lodgings | the house | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=Theme | |||
| 3 | intend | past | Opulo | lodgings | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | Opulo not said here | there | permanently property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | past | the worthy man | kindly property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | the worthy man not said here | Opulo | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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