The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 79
All went well with the boy on the way home until he came to the fence surrounding the stone in the form of a man, and there he was detained and compelled to remain four months.
Who acts: Balatama, fence · What happens: go, come, surround, detain, compel, remain · To what, where: way, fence, stone, Balatama, man
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 (Balatama, fence), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 went | advmod |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 boy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 way | advmod |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 fence | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fence | det |
| 16 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 fence | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 surrounding | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 form | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 form | det |
| 22 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 surrounding | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 form | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 detained | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 detained | cc |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 detained | expl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 detained | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 detained | aux:pass |
| 31 | detained | detain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 came | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 compelled | cc |
| 33 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 detained | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 remain | mark |
| 35 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 compelled | xcomp |
| 36 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 months | nummod |
| 37 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 remain | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the way | with the boy; well property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with boy=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Balatama | the fence | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fence=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | surround | gerund | the fence not said here | the stone | in the form of a man | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=Destination in form=Theme | |||
| 4 | detain | past · passive | Balatama | there | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | compel | participle | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | ||||||
| 6 | remain | to-infinitive | month | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | form | a man | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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