The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 55

At first he walked briskly, but as the morning wore on he went more slowly, and finally when the sun was high he sat down on a rock to rest.

Who acts: boy, sun · What happens: walk, wear, go, be, sit down, rest · To what, where: rock

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, sun), 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	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 walked	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 walked	nsubj
4	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	briskly	briskly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 walked	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wore	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 wore	cc
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wore	obl
11	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	14 went	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wore	advcl
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 slowly	advmod
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
19	finally	finally	ADV	_	24 high	advmod
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 high	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sun	det
22	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 high	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 high	cop
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sat	advcl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walked	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 sat	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 rock	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 rock	det
30	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 rest	mark
32	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sat	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	boy			briskly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Trajectory
2	wear	past	boy not said here		morning		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	boy			slowly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the sun			finally, high property	tree rules
5	sit down	past	boy	a rock			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location
6	rest	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 55

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 55