The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 27
Chasid and his companion wandered along the passages seeking a dry spot, when suddenly Mansor stood still.
Who acts: Chasid, passages, Mansor · What happens: wander, seek, stand · To what, where: passages, dry spot
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chasid, passages, Mansor), 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 | Chasid | Chasid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 companion | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 companion | nmod:poss |
| 4 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chasid | conj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 passages | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 passages | det |
| 8 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wandered | obl |
| 9 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 passages | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 11 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spot | amod |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 stood | advmod |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 16 | Mansor | Mansor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | conj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Chasid and ruin's companion | the passages | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along passage=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | the passages not said here | a dry spot | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Mansor | still | suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «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: «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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