The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 92
He had been both hungry and thirsty when he came into the cave, as he had not waited to have his mid-day meal with the other field-workers; but now he felt quite comforted and refreshed.
Who acts: Wang · What happens: be, come, not wait, have, comfort, refresh · To what, where: cave, mid-day meal, Wang
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), 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 | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 hungry | cop |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 hungry | advmod |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 thirsty | cc |
| 7 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hungry | conj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 cave | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cave | det |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waited | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 waited | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 waited | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 waited | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 waited | advmod |
| 19 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 came | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 waited | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 meal | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mid-day | mid-day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 meal | compound |
| 24 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 workers | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 workers | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 workers | amod |
| 28 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 workers | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 field | punct |
| 30 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 have | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 comforted | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 comforted | cc |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 comforted | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 comforted | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 comforted | aux:pass |
| 36 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 37 comforted | advmod |
| 37 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hungry | parataxis |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 refreshed | cc |
| 39 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 comforted | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | Wang | both, hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Wang not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | Wang | the cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | not wait | past · perfect | Wang | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | Wang not said here | Wang's mid-day meal | with the other field workers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | |||
| 6 | comfort | past · passive | Wang | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | refresh | past | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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