The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 9
I therefore returned alone to look for it, and I sought all about the plain where Houssain’s and Ali’s arrows were found, and where I imagined mine must have fallen, but all my labor was in vain.
Who acts: I, mine, labor · What happens: return, look, seek, find, imagine, fall · To what, where: Ali arrows
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 (I, mine, labor), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 returned | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sought | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sought | nsubj |
| 12 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 plain | advmod |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 plain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plain | det |
| 16 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sought | xcomp |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 found | advmod |
| 18 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Houssain | case |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Ali | cc |
| 21 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 arrows | compound |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Ali | case |
| 23 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 found | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 plain | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fallen | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fallen | cc |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 imagined | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 imagined | nsubj |
| 30 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fallen | advcl |
| 31 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 fallen | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 fallen | aux |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 fallen | aux |
| 34 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 sought | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 vain | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 vain | cc |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 labor | det:predet |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 labor | nmod:poss |
| 39 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 vain | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 vain | cop |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 vain | case |
| 42 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fallen | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | I | alone, therefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | I not said here | for loss | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | I | plain property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | find | past · passive | Houssain's Ali arrows | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 5 | imagine | past | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | fall | must · perfect | mine | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | my labor | vain property | tree rules |
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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