The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 51
Thoroughly angered, Juan sought the tree a fourth time and was on the point of cutting it down when once more it arrested his attention.
Who acts: Juan, point · What happens: anger, seek, be, cut down, arrest, attend · To what, where: tree, point, attention
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, point), 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 | Thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 2 angered | advmod |
| 2 | angered | anger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sought | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 angered | punct |
| 4 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | nsubj |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 point | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 point | cop |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 point | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 point | det |
| 15 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | conj |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 cutting | mark |
| 17 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 point | nmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cutting | obj |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 cutting | compound:prt |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 arrested | advmod |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 arrested | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 arrested | nsubj |
| 24 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cutting | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 attention | nmod:poss |
| 26 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arrested | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | anger | participle | Juan not said here | thoroughly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | Juan | the tree | time | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | Juan not said here | the point | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cut down | gerund | point | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||||
| 5 | arrest | past | point | JUAN's attention | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | ||||
| 6 | attend | JUAN | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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