The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 47
While he was asleep, the friend replaced the magic net with a common one, so that when Juan reached home and tried to show his power, he was again the subject of ridicule.
Who acts: JUAN, asleep friend · What happens: be, replace, reach, try, show · To what, where: magic net, power, subject
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 (JUAN, asleep 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 asleep | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asleep | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asleep | cop |
| 4 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friend | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 asleep | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 friend | det |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replaced | nsubj |
| 8 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 net | det |
| 10 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 net | amod |
| 11 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replaced | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replaced | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reached | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 reached | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 reached | mark |
| 20 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replaced | parataxis |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 reached | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tried | cc |
| 24 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 reached | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 show | mark |
| 26 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 tried | xcomp |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 power | nmod:poss |
| 28 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 show | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 subject | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 subject | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 subject | cop |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 subject | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 subject | det |
| 34 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replaced | advcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 ridicule | case |
| 36 | ridicule | ridicule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 subject | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | JUAN | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | replace | past | the asleep friend | the magic net | with a common one | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme net=Location with one=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | reach | past | Juan | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | try | past | Juan not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | Juan not said here | JUAN's power | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | JUAN | the subject | again | of ridicule | 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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