The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 32
But after a time he became hungry, and looked around for a worm, and this was something new for him.
Who acts: Sin, this · What happens: become, look around, be · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sin, this), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 became | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 became | nsubj |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 11 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 worm | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 worm | det |
| 14 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 something | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 something | cc |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 something | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 something | cop |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 looked | obl |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 something | amod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 new | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Sin | time | hungry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | look around | past | Sin not said here | for a worm; around property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for worm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | something | 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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