The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 52
At these words the sorceress made many feigned efforts to rise, pretending that the violence of her illness prevented her.
Who acts: sorceress, many, violence · What happens: make, feign, rise, pretend, prevent · To what, where: words, efforts, sorceress
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorceress, many, violence), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sorceress | det |
| 5 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feigned | nsubj |
| 8 | feigned | feign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | ccomp |
| 9 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feigned | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 rise | mark |
| 11 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 feigned | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pretending | punct |
| 13 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 rise | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 prevented | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 violence | det |
| 16 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 prevented | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 illness | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 illness | nmod:poss |
| 19 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 violence | nmod |
| 20 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pretending | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 prevented | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the sorceress | this words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feign | past | many | efforts | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | to-infinitive | many not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pretend | gerund | many not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | prevent | past | the violence of sorceress's illness | sorceress | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=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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