The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 23
They examined the chamber with the utmost exactness and at length found a keyhole in one of the panels of the wall.
Who acts: enemies · What happens: examine, find · To what, where: chamber, keyhole, length
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 (enemies), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 examined | nsubj |
| 2 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chamber | det |
| 4 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 examined | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 exactness | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 exactness | det |
| 7 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 exactness | amod |
| 8 | exactness | exactness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 examined | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 examined | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 keyhole | det |
| 14 | keyhole | keyhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 found | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 panels | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 panels | det |
| 19 | panels | panel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wall | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wall | det |
| 22 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 panels | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | enemies = enemy | the chamber | with the utmost exactness | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamber=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | enemies = enemy not said here | a keyhole | length | in one of the panels of the wall | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent keyhole=Theme at length=Asset |
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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