The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 10
But he was only in a trance, and when he came out of this he felt very lonely indeed, for there was no one to speak to him.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: be, come out, feel, speak · To what, where: trance, this, one, Emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 trance | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 trance | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trance | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 trance | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 trance | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trance | det |
| 7 | trance | trance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 felt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 felt | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 came | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 felt | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trance | parataxis |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 lonely | advmod |
| 19 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 felt | xcomp |
| 20 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 19 lonely | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 was | mark |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 was | expl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | cop |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 felt | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 speak | mark |
| 28 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 one | acl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 speak | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 trance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Emperor | a trance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | Emperor | this | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient this=Result | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | Emperor | lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Emperor not said here | no one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | Emperor | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-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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