The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 55
He thought that surely the old porter would know him when he should reach the house, so he ceased his efforts for the present.
Who acts: Sin, old porter · What happens: think, know, reach, cease · To what, where: Sin, house, efforts
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, old porter), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 4 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 9 know | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 porter | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 porter | amod |
| 7 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | aux |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 reach | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reach | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 reach | aux |
| 14 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ceased | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 ceased | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ceased | nsubj |
| 20 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 efforts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | efforts | effort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ceased | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 present | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 present | det |
| 25 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ceased | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Sin | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | would | the old porter | Sin | surely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | reach | should | Sin | the house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cease | past | Sin | Sin's efforts | for the present | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector effort=Eventuality |
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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