The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 53
At the end of that time he said that he must return to his mother, who would be worried about him.
Who acts: boy, mother · What happens: say, return, be · To what, where: end · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, mother), 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 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 return | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 return | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 return | aux |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 mother | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 return | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 worried | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 worried | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 worried | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 worried | cop |
| 20 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mother | acl:relcl |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 worried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | boy | at the end of that time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | return | must | boy | to boy's mother result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mother=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | would | boy's mother | about boy; worried 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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