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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 55

Encouraged by this sight he went on, but though it seemed only a short distance, it was some time before he at last stood at the gate of the town.

Who acts: More, it, distance · What happens: encourage, go on, seem, be, stand · To what, where: sight, short distance, time, gate

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 (More, it, distance), 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

casedetoblnsubjacl:relcladvmodpunctccmarknsubjadvcladvmoddetamodoblpunctnsubjcopdetobl:unmarkedcasensubjcasenmodacl:relclcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctrootEncouragedVERBbyADPthisDETsightNOUNhePRONwentVERBonADV,PUNCTbutCCONJthoughSCONJitPRONseemedVERBonlyADVaDETshortADJdistanceNOUN,PUNCTitPRONwasAUXsomeDETtimeNOUNbeforeADPhePRONatADPlastADJstoodVERBatADPtheDETgateNOUNofADPtheDETtownNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EncouragedencourageVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
2bybyADP_4 sightcase
3thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 sightdet
4sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing1 Encouragedobl
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 wentnsubj
6wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 sightacl:relcl
7ononADV_6 wentadvmod
8,,PUNCT_21 timepunct
9butbutCCONJ_21 timecc
10thoughthoughSCONJ_12 seemedmark
11ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 seemednsubj
12seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 timeadvcl
13onlyonlyADV_16 distanceadvmod
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 distancedet
15shortshortADJDegree=Pos16 distanceamod
16distancedistanceNOUNNumber=Sing12 seemedobl
17,,PUNCT_12 seemedpunct
18ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 timensubj
19wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 timecop
20somesomeDETPronType=Ind21 timedet
21timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing1 Encouragedobl:unmarked
22beforebeforeADP_23 hecase
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 stoodnsubj
24atatADP_25 lastcase
25lastlastADJDegree=Pos23 henmod
26stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 timeacl:relcl
27atatADP_29 gatecase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 gatedet
29gategateNOUNNumber=Sing26 stoodobl
30ofofADP_32 towncase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 towndet
32towntownNOUNNumber=Sing29 gatenmod
33..PUNCT_1 Encouragedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1encourageparticipleby this sightvn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2go onpastMorethis sight not said heretree rules
3seempastita short distancevn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4is apastdistancesome timetree rules
5standpastMoresome time not said herethe gate of the townvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent time=Theme at gate=Destination

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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