The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 108

Happening to look toward a burial-ground, he saw that the doors of the mosque there were open, so here he determined to remain for the night.

Who acts: friend, doors · What happens: happen, look, see, be, determine, remain · 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 (friend, doors), 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	Happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 saw	advcl
2	to	to	PART	_	3 look	mark
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Happening	xcomp
4	toward	toward	ADP	_	8 ground	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ground	det
6	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ground	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 burial	punct
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Happening	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 open	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 doors	det
14	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 open	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 mosque	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mosque	det
17	mosque	mosque	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 doors	nmod
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 were	expl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 open	cop
20	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saw	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 determined	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 here	advmod
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 determined	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 determined	nsubj
25	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 remain	mark
27	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 determined	xcomp
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 night	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 remain	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	gerund	friend not said here				tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	friend not said here			toward a burial ground	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward ground=Theme
3	see	past	friend				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the doors of the mosque			open property	tree rules
5	determine	past	friend	here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	remain	to-infinitive	friend not said here		night		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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 108