The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 41
In terror he tried to swim away, but every movement added to his misery, and soon he found he was being pulled up to the surface.
Who acts: Sin · What happens: try, swim away, add, find, pull up · To what, where: terror, movement, Sin, surface · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 terror | case |
| 2 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tried | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 swim | mark |
| 6 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 swim | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 added | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 added | cc |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 movement | det |
| 11 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 added | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tried | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 misery | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 misery | nmod:poss |
| 15 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 added | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 found | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 added | conj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 pulled | aux:pass |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 pulled | aux:pass |
| 24 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 found | ccomp |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 pulled | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 surface | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 surface | det |
| 28 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pulled | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Sin | terror | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | swim away not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sin not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | participle · passive | every movement | to Sin's misery | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to misery=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Sin | soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pull up | past · passive | Sin | the surface | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to surface=Destination |
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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