The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 31
But as he could not imagine what had become of his arrow, he resolved to search for it.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: not imagine, become, resolve, search
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 resolved | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 imagine | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 imagine | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 imagine | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 imagine | advmod |
| 6 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 resolved | advcl |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 become | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 become | aux |
| 9 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 imagine | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 arrow | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 become | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 imagine | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 resolved | nsubj |
| 15 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 search | mark |
| 17 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 resolved | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 search | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | could | Prince | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | of Prince's arrow; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | resolve | past | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | search | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | for motive | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
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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