Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, Story of Mencius., sentence 2
Here, as he was straying, (while rain and thunder conspired to make solitude still more hideous) he perceived a hermit’s cell, and approaching, asked for shelter.
Who acts: Mencius, rain · What happens: stray, conspire, make, perceive, approach, ask · To what, where: solitude, cell
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Story of Mencius.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mencius, rain), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 perceived | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 straying | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 straying | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 straying | aux |
| 6 | straying | stray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 perceived | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 conspired | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 conspired | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 conspired | mark |
| 10 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conspired | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thunder | cc |
| 12 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rain | conj |
| 13 | conspired | conspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 straying | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 conspired | xcomp |
| 16 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 hideous | advmod |
| 19 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | xcomp |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 straying | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 perceived | nsubj |
| 22 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hermit | det |
| 24 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cell | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 hermit | case |
| 26 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 perceived | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 approaching | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 approaching | cc |
| 29 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 perceived | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asked | punct |
| 31 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 perceived | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 shelter | case |
| 33 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 asked | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stray | past · progressive | Mencius | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | conspire | past | rain and thunder | vn conspire-71 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | rain and thunder not said here | solitude | hideous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset solitude=Product | |||
| 4 | perceive | past | Mencius | a hermit's cell | here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cell=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | approach | gerund | Mencius not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | Mencius not said here | for shelter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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