The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 115
He arose and wandered on until he saw before him a broad, shining river, into which he immediately plunged.
Who acts: demon · What happens: arise, wander on, see, shine, plunge · To what, where: broad shining river
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demon), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 arose | nsubj |
| 2 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wandered | cc |
| 4 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arose | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 wandered | compound:prt |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 saw | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | advcl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 river | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shining | punct |
| 14 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 river | amod |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 plunged | punct |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 plunged | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 plunged | nsubj |
| 20 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 21 plunged | advmod |
| 21 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | demon | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wander on | past | demon not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | demon | a broad shining river | before skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | plunge | past | demon | which obl; immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into which=Initial_Location |
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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