The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 51
Many times had he tried to reach his own country, but was unable to do so until now.
Who acts: Many times, joy · What happens: have, try, reach, be, do · To what, where: own country
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 (Many times, joy), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tried | nsubj |
| 5 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 reach | mark |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tried | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 country | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 country | amod |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unable | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 unable | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 unable | cop |
| 14 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 unable | xcomp |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 do | advmod |
| 18 | until | until | ADP | _ | 19 now | case |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 do | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Many times | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | past | joy | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | joy not said here | joy's own country | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Many times not said here | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | Many times not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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