The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 5
He immediately began work, and took up more than half the square stones it was paved with, yet saw not the least appearance of what he sought.
Who acts: dream, square stones · What happens: begin, take up, pave, not see, seek · To what, where: work, more, least appearance
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 (dream, square stones), 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 | 3 began | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 stones | case |
| 11 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 14 stones | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stones | det |
| 13 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stones | compound |
| 14 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 more | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 paved | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 paved | aux:pass |
| 17 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stones | acl:relcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 paved | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 20 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 saw | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 appearance | det |
| 24 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 appearance | amod |
| 25 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 what | case |
| 27 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 appearance | nmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sought | nsubj |
| 29 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 what | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | dream | work | immediately property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | take up | past | more than half square stones | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pave | past · passive | half square stones not said here | work | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not see | past | the least appearance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer appearance=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | seek | past | dream | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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