The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 52
From the top he could look down into the city for which he was bound.
Who acts: lad · What happens: look down, be
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 (lad), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 top | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 top | det |
| 3 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | aux |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 look | compound:prt |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 city | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 bound | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bound | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bound | cop |
| 15 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 city | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | could | lad | into the city; from the top | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from top=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | lad | for the city; bound property | 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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