The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 67
When they were all killed, the widow’s son was so crazed with fighting that he thought no longer of returning home, but started out to find more to slay.
Who acts: SON · What happens: kill, craze, think, return, start out, find · To what, where: weapons, son, more
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 (SON), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 killed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 killed | advmod |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crazed | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 widow | det |
| 8 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 widow | case |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crazed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 crazed | aux:pass |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 crazed | advmod |
| 13 | crazed | craze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 killed | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 fighting | case |
| 15 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crazed | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 thought | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 crazed | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | ADV | _ | 20 longer | advmod |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 thought | advmod |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 returning | mark |
| 22 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 longer | advcl |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 returning | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 started | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 started | cc |
| 26 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thought | conj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 started | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 find | mark |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 started | xcomp |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 find | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 slay | mark |
| 32 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 more | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | weapons = weapon | all property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | craze | past · passive | the widow's son | with fighting | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | SON | long property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | return | gerund | SON not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | start out | past | SON not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | find | to-infinitive | SON not said here | more | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 7 | slay | to-infinitive | SON not said here | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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