The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 15
For Wang Chih still lingered at the mouth of the cave.
What happens: linger · To what, where: mouth
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 Chih | case |
| 2 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Chih | compound |
| 3 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lingered | obl |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 lingered | advmod |
| 5 | lingered | linger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mouth | det |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lingered | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mouth | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lingered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | linger | participle | the mouth of the cave | still | for Wang Chih | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mouth=Location |
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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