The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 36
He swam to and fro, trying to avoid it, but somehow he couldn’t get away from it.
Who acts: Sin · What happens: swim, fro, try, avoid, not get away · To what, where: worm
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), 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 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 2 swam | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fro | cc |
| 5 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 swam | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 trying | punct |
| 7 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fro | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 avoid | mark |
| 9 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 trying | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 avoid | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 get | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 13 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 get | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 get | advmod |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 swam | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 get | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 get | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | Sin | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fro | infinitive | Sin not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | try | gerund | Sin not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | avoid not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sin not said here | worm | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location | ||||
| 5 | not get away | could | Sin | from worm; away, somehow property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from it=Source |
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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