The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 73
He found a suitable house for him, and servants to attend to his comfort, so Opulo took up his residence in the land of Continual Life.
Who acts: Opulo · What happens: find, servant, attend, take up, comfort · To what, where: suitable house, residence, land
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 servants | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 servants | cc |
| 10 | servants | servant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 attend | mark |
| 12 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 servants | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 comfort | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 15 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 attend | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 took | advmod |
| 18 | Opulo | Opulo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 took | nsubj |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 took | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 residence | nmod:poss |
| 22 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 land | det |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Life | case |
| 27 | Continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Life | amod |
| 28 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 land | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Opulo | a suitable house | for man | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent house=Theme for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | servant | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | attend | to-infinitive | to Opulo's comfort | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to comfort=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take up | past | Opulo | Opulo's residence | the land of Continual Life | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent residence=Value in land=Location | |||
| 5 | comfort | Opulo | nom comfort «state 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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