The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 67
“I got these two articles from a merchant who had picked them up in the street at Mecca,” said the pedler.
Who acts: pedler, merchant · What happens: get, pick up, say · To what, where: two articles, merchant, articles, street · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pedler, merchant), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | advcl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 articles | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 articles | nummod |
| 6 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 merchant | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 articles | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 picked | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 picked | aux |
| 12 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 picked | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 picked | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 street | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 street | det |
| 17 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 picked | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Mecca | case |
| 19 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 picked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pedler | det |
| 24 | pedler | pedler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | the pedler = pedler | this two articles | a merchant | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent article=Theme from merchant=Source | |||
| 2 | pick up in a quote | past · perfect | a merchant | articles = article | the street | at Mecca | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the pedler | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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