The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 107
They searched carefully, but could not find it anywhere, and after awhile they turned back to tell their master of the sad loss.
Who acts: subjects · What happens: search, not find, turn back, tell · To what, where: ring, master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subjects), 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 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 searched | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 find | cc |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 find | advmod |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 searched | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 find | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turned | cc |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 awhile | case |
| 14 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 16 turned | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 searched | parataxis |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 turned | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 turned | xcomp |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 master | nmod:poss |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 loss | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 loss | det |
| 24 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 loss | amod |
| 25 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 master | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | subjects = subject | carefully property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not find | could | subjects = subject not said here | ring | anywhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | turn back | past | subjects = subject | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | subjects = subject not said here | subjects's master of the sad loss | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient |
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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