The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 107
So he went to Bagdad, and as he reached that city during the night, he did not like to awaken his friend, thinking that, poorly dressed, desolate and destitute as he was, he might not know him, so he decided to wait until the next day.
Who acts: friend · What happens: go, reach, not like, awaken, think, dress · To what, where: Bagdad, city, friend, that
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 (friend), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Bagdad | case |
| 5 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 city | mark |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 like | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 like | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 like | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 awaken | mark |
| 22 | awaken | awaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 like | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friend | nmod:poss |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 awaken | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thinking | punct |
| 26 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 thinking | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dressed | punct |
| 29 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 30 dressed | advmod |
| 30 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 desolate | punct |
| 32 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 dressed | xcomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 destitute | cc |
| 34 | destitute | destitute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 desolate | conj |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 was | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 was | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 destitute | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 know | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 know | nsubj |
| 40 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 know | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 know | advmod |
| 42 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 destitute | conj |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 know | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 decided | punct |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 47 decided | advmod |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 decided | nsubj |
| 47 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 wait | mark |
| 49 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 decided | xcomp |
| 50 | until | until | ADP | _ | 53 day | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 day | det |
| 52 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 day | amod |
| 53 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 wait | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | friend | Bagdad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | friend | city | night | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme | |||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | friend | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | awaken not said to happen | to-infinitive | friend not said here | friend's friend | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location friend=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | friend not said here | that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 6 | dress | participle | poorly property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | desolate | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | destitute | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | be | past | friend | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | not know | might | friend | BAGDAD | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 11 | decide | past | friend | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 12 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | friend not said here | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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