The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 70
He found that he was unable to get out of this, and so lay down as though he were dead.
Who acts: JACKAL · What happens: find, be, get out, lay down · To what, where: this
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 (JACKAL), 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 | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 unable | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 unable | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 unable | cop |
| 6 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 found | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 unable | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 get | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lay | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 lay | advmod |
| 15 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 found | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 lay | compound:prt |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 lay | advmod |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 dead | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dead | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dead | cop |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lay | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | JACKAL | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | JACKAL | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get out | to-infinitive | JACKAL not said here | this | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lay down | infinitive | JACKAL not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | JACKAL | dead property | tree rules |
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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