The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 43
More than once on the way, however, his courage was tried, and only the thought of his brave father gave him strength to proceed.
Who acts: brave father · What happens: try, give, proceed · To what, where: More, strength, Balatama
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brave father), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 More | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 once | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 tried | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 however | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 courage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tried | aux:pass |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 thought | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thought | det |
| 18 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tried | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 gave | mark |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 father | amod |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thought | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 proceed | mark |
| 27 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 strength | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · passive | More | Balatama's courage nsubj; the thought parataxis; however property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Balatama's brave father | strength | Balatama | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient strength=Theme | |||
| 3 | proceed | to-infinitive | Balatama's brave father not said here | strength not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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