--- title: He lodged at a khan appointed for foreign merchants, and soon learne… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: He lodged at a khan appointed for foreign merchants, and soon learned that there were four principal bazaars where merchants of all sorts kept their shops, on a large extent of ground, in the centre of the city. Who acts: Houssain, four principal bazaars, merchants. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houssain, four principal bazaars, merchants), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:11:12 # text = He lodged at a khan appointed for foreign merchants, and soon learned that there were four principal bazaars where merchants of all sorts kept their shops, on a large extent of ground, in the centre of the city. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lodged lodge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 khan khan NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 principal principal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 bazaars bazaar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 25 advmod _ _ 21 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 extent extent NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lodge** | past | Houssain | | | a khan | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at khan=Location | | 2 | **appoint** | participle | | a khan *not said here* | | | | for foreign merchants | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **learn** | past | Houssain *not said here* | | | a large extent of ground | | in the centre of the city; soon *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** | past | four principal bazaars | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **keep** | past | merchants of all sorts | bazaars's shops | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme | | 6 | **extend** | | | ground | | | | | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/13/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/11/)