The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 41
Thereupon his amazement was so intense that he could not recover himself.
Who acts: amazement, sultan · What happens: be, not recover, amaze · To what, where: sultan
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (amazement, sultan), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 intense | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 3 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 intense | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 intense | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 intense | advmod |
| 6 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 recover | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 recover | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 recover | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 recover | advmod |
| 11 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 intense | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 recover | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 intense | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sultan's amazement | intense, thereupon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not recover | could | sultan | sultan | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | amaze | sultan | nom amazement «feeling 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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