The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 12
They sought for him in every possible place, but could not find him.
Who acts: tutor · What happens: seek, not find · To what, where: possible place, Varna
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tutor), 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 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 place | det |
| 7 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 find | cc |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 find | advmod |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sought | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | tutor | every possible place | for Varna | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme in place=Location | |||
| 2 | not find | could | tutor not said here | Varna | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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