The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 85
He was now thoroughly awake, but it was some time before he could realize that he was safe in his own room, so real had his experiences seemed.
Who acts: Sin, head, real, experiences · What happens: be, realize, have, seem, experience · To what, where: time, own room · 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, head, real, experiences), 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 | 5 awake | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awake | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 awake | advmod |
| 4 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 5 awake | advmod |
| 5 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 time | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 time | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | cop |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awake | obl |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 realize | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 realize | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 realize | aux |
| 15 | realize | realize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 time | acl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 safe | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 safe | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 safe | cop |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 realize | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 room | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 room | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 room | amod |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 safe | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 real | advmod |
| 26 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awake | conj |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 experiences | nmod:poss |
| 29 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 seemed | nsubj |
| 30 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sin | now | awake, thoroughly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | head | some time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | realize | could | Sin | some time not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Sin | Sin's own room | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | past | real | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | seem | past | Sin's experiences | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | experience | Sin | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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