The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 8

And then, when a man is hungry, he has to seek his food on land, while a fish can find nourishment while gliding through the water, and that without fatigue and almost without movement.

Who acts: man, fish · What happens: be, have, seek, find, glide · To what, where: food, land, nourishment, water

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 (man, fish), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 hungry	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 hungry	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hungry	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 hungry	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hungry	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 seek	mark
13	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 has	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 food	nmod:poss
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seek	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 land	case
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seek	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 find	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 find	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fish	det
21	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seek	conj
24	nourishment	nourishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 gliding	mark
26	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 find	advcl
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gliding	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fatigue	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fatigue	cc
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 fatigue	det
33	without	without	ADP	_	34 fatigue	case
34	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hungry	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 movement	cc
36	almost	almost	ADV	_	38 movement	advmod
37	without	without	ADP	_	38 movement	case
38	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fatigue	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a man			then	that fatigue and movement parataxis; hungry property	tree rules
2	have	present	man					tree rules
3	seek	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's food	land			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme on land=Location
4	find	can	a fish	nourishment				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nourishment=Topic
5	glide	gerund	a fish not said here		the water			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 8

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Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 8