The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 109
He slept out on the mountain, and early in the morning found his way back to the cave where the two old men were playing chess.
Who acts: Wang, two old men · What happens: sleep out, find back, play · To what, where: mountain, way, chess
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang, two old men), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slept | nsubj |
| 2 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 slept | compound:prt |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 mountain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mountain | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slept | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 found | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 morning | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 early | obl |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slept | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 found | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 cave | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cave | det |
| 19 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 playing | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 men | det |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 men | nummod |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 men | amod |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 playing | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 playing | aux |
| 26 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 cave | acl:relcl |
| 27 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 playing | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep out | past | Wang | the mountain | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find back | past | Wang not said here | Wang's way | to the cave | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 3 | play | past · progressive | the two old men | chess | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=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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