The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 7
However, he took heart and went on with his labor, until he discovered a white slab, which he took up, and under it found a staircase of white marble.
Who acts: dream, white slab, slab · What happens: take, go on, discover, take up, find · To what, where: heart, white slab, staircase
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, white slab, slab), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 labor | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 labor | nmod:poss |
| 11 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 discovered | punct |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 discovered | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 discovered | nsubj |
| 15 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 slab | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slab | amod |
| 18 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 discovered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 took | nsubj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 slab | acl:relcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 took | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 found | cc |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 found | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 staircase | det |
| 30 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 marble | case |
| 32 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 marble | amod |
| 33 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 staircase | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | dream | heart | however property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | |||
| 2 | go on | past | dream not said here | with dream's labor | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | discover | past | dream | a white slab | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slab=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take up | past | a white slab | dream nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | find | past | slab | a staircase of white marble | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staircase=Topic |
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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