The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 8
The loss of my arrow dwelt continually on my mind, and I resolved to find it.
Who acts: loss, I, my · What happens: dwell, resolve, find, mind · To what, where: mind, loss
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 (loss, I, my), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwelt | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 arrow | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loss | nmod |
| 6 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | continually | continually | ADV | _ | 6 dwelt | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 mind | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwelt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 resolved | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 resolved | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 resolved | nsubj |
| 14 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dwelt | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 resolved | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | the loss of my arrow | my mind | continually property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mind=Location | |||
| 2 | resolve | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | loss | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 4 | mind | my | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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