The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 115
They waited for some time, but as their friend didn’t appear, they decided to search for him, fearing that he was in trouble.
Who acts: weasel, friend, goat · What happens: wait, not appear, decide, search, fear, be · To what, where: trouble
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weasel, friend, goat), 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 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 decided | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 decided | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 appear | mark |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appear | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 appear | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 appear | advmod |
| 13 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 decided | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 appear | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 decided | nsubj |
| 16 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 search | mark |
| 18 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 decided | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 search | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fearing | punct |
| 22 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 search | advcl |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 trouble | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 trouble | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 trouble | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 trouble | case |
| 27 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fearing | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | weasel | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not appear | past · do-support | weasel's friend | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | decide | past | weasel | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | search not said to happen | to-infinitive | weasel not said here | for goat | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fear | gerund | weasel not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | goat | trouble | tree rules |
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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