The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 106
Zeyn could not sufficiently admire the beauties with which he was surrounded, and still found something new as he advanced farther into the island.
Who acts: Zeyn, spot · What happens: not admire, surround, find, advance · To what, where: beauties, spot, something, island
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zeyn, spot), 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 | Zeyn | Zeyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 admire | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 admire | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 admire | advmod |
| 4 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 5 admire | advmod |
| 5 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beauties | det |
| 7 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 admire | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 surrounded | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 12 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 beauties | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 found | advmod |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 admire | parataxis |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 something | amod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 advanced | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 advanced | nsubj |
| 21 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | advcl |
| 22 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 advanced | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 island | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 island | det |
| 25 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 advanced | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 admire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not admire | could | Zeyn | the beauties | sufficiently property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | surround | past · passive | spot | with the beauties | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | something | still | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 4 | advance | past | spot | the island | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into island=Initial_Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/17/106/