The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 46
However, he could not but often think regretfully of the young girl he had married and blame himself for having deceived her.
Who acts: impatience · What happens: not think, marry, blame, have, deceive · To what, where: impatience, girl · 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 (impatience), 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 | _ | 8 think | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 think | advmod |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 often | cc |
| 7 | often | often | ADV | _ | 8 think | advmod |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | regretfully | regretfully | ADV | _ | 16 married | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 girl | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 married | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 married | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 married | aux |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 think | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 blame | cc |
| 18 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 think | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 blame | obj |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 having | mark |
| 21 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 blame | advcl |
| 22 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 having | obj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 deceived | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | could | impatience | however, often property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | past · perfect · passive | impatience | of the young girl; regretfully property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | blame | infinitive | impatience not said here | impatience | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | impatience not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | deceive | past | girl | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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